State v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
July 2001
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 338 So. 2d 584 - State v. Crosby · 530 So. 2d 1242 - State v. Roebuck · State v. Roebuck · State v. Britton · 654 So. 2d 868 - State v. Matthews
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if ... property is abandoned without any prior unlawful intrusion into a citizen's right to be free from government interference, then such property may be lawfully seized. In such cases, there is no expectation of privacy and thus no violation of a person's custodial rights.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“who was reported to have a gun or was looking for a gun. The police could reasonably believe that the defendant may have had the gun, or that [the female] might be getting the gun from the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Benjamin
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.