671 So. 2d 292 - Lang v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2012
15 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 Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · California v. Hodari D. · Henry v. United States · Griffin v. Texas
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... this case turns on whether Lang had submitted to the deputy's authority at the time he dropped the pill bottle.... In this case Lang had not been physically subdued, but he had submitted to the deputy's authority by beginning to comply with the deputy's instruction to get into the patrol car. Had the deputy here merely asked Lang to approach his car in order to speak with him, and Lang had thrown down the contraband, or had Lang refused to comply with the deputy's directive, Lang would have voluntarily abandoned the contraband, and it could have been used as evidence against him. (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“improper for an officer to ask a person to remove his hands from his pockets during a citizen encounter.”
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.