617 So. 2d 432 - Freeman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2015
12 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 539 So. 2d 473 - Florida Bar v. Newhouse · 471 So. 2d 147 - DA v. State · Ibarra v. State · 529 So. 2d 1160 - Chamson v. State · Tropigas S. A. v. Sanchez
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`point to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant' a finding that a breach of the peace is imminent or the public safety is threatened.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the arresting officer merely saw two men jump a high wall and start walking towards the street. He did not see either man carrying anything prior to stopping them. [And][t]hese facts do not support a finding that the officer had probable cause to arrest [the defendant] for loitering and prowling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. State
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.