662 So. 2d 725 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on New York v. Belton · Florida Bar v. Hawkins · 562 So. 2d 343 - Florida Bar re: Amendment to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar-Rule 1-7.3 · Moreland v. State · 404 So. 2d 1102 - Chapas 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Supreme Court in the Belton case has foreclosed the option of determining on a case-by-case basis whether the interior of an automobile is within the scope of a search incident to arrest. We read Belton as establishing a rule applicable to all cases involving the arrest of a recent occupant of an automobile, without regard to the facts in the particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when a policeman has made a lawful custodial arrest of the occupant of an automobile, he may, as a contemporaneous incident of that arrest, search the passenger compartment of that automobile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.