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← 691 SW2D 267 - State v. Fernandez

State v. Fernandez’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
3
states following
May 2003
most recently cited

26 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably State v. Franklin (1992), 601 So. 2d 145 - Carnold v. State (1992)

26 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 · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Cortez · Adams v. Williams · Tennessee v. Garner

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

  1. “"[I]f police have a reasonable suspicion, grounded in specific and articulable facts, that a person they encounter was involved or is wanted in a completed felony, then a Terry stop may be made to investigate that suspicion."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Terry requires that the stop be justified at its inception”
    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.