613 So. 2d 569 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 875 So. 2d 780 - Bolden v. State (2004), 630 So. 2d 660 - Stone v. State (1994)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State Ex Rel. Gaines Construction Co. v. Pearson · 265 So. 2d 2 - Garmire v. Red Lake · 585 So. 2d 1079 - Coon v. State · 386 So. 2d 43 - Estevez v. Gordon · 400 So. 2d 990 - Golding v. DIR. OF PUB. SAFETY, ETC.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to resolve such questions as whether enumerated items were, in fact, seized, and whether a valid basis exists to permit their return by authorities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a trial court has assumed jurisdiction over criminal charges, it is thereafter vested with an inherent power to assist the true owner in the recovery of property held in custodia legis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]ertainly the court cannot make the police department return property it does not possess.”
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.