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612 So. 2d 716 - Hamilton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
July 2009
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 596 So. 2d 442 - Doctor v. State · Yates v. State · 594 So. 2d 264 - Davis v. State · Lelis v. State · State v. Wilson

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The lawfulness of a patdown search for weapons presupposes that a stop is valid and that the officer then forms the necessary suspicion that a suspect is armed and dangerous.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “into a `stop' requiring closer scrutiny.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.