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1995

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
2
states following
June 2016
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Davis v. Williams (2006), Storck v. City of Coral Springs (2003)

1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions

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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 Terry v. Ohio · City of Houston v. Hill · State v. Jimeno · Wilkerson v. State · L.A.T. v. State

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If a police officer is not engaged in executing process on a person, is not legally detaining that person, or has not asked the person for assistance with an ongoing emergency that presents a serious threat of imminent harm to person or property, the person's words alone can rarely, if ever, rise to the level of an obstruction.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. D.A.W. v. State · State v. Legnosky
  2. “[i]n evaluating a citizen's verbal response to a police officer, it is important to distinguish between a police officer `in the lawful execution of any legal duty' and a police officer who is merely on the job.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 731 So. 2d 774 - Jay v. State · 993 So. 2d 1182 - WW v. State
  3. “[t]his rule . . . does not obligate a person to give his or her correct identity to an officer unless that person is legally detained.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Fournier v. State · 903 So. 2d 1003 - St. James 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.