State v. Britton’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably 720 So. 2d 1179 - State v. Fisher (1998), 900 So. 2d 156 - State v. Sykes (2005)
43 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 Logiudice v. Georgia · 441 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Belton · State v. Chopin · 434 So. 2d 389 - State v. Andrishok · 421 So. 2d 874 - State v. Williams
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he police do not need probable cause to arrest or reasonable suspicion for an investigatory stop every time they approach a citizen in a public place.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“into the gas station with the officers in pursuit, only several feet behind. The defendant removed an object from his pants pocket and placed it in a display rack. The Louisiana Supreme Court found that the police”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not forcibly detain him [the defendant], or make a show of their authority signalling that some form of detention was imminent, until after he discarded the packet of cocaine.”
2 later decisions 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.