730 So. 2d 294 - Walls v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2017
8 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 700 So. 2d 370 - LB v. State · Bell 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here, appellant carried the knife in his pocket in an open, locked position. Moreover, the sworn motion is not specific as to the length of the blade, utilizing the term "approximately" to establish the blade's dimensions. Under these facts, we adhere to pre- L.B. case law indicating that whether the knife at issue constituted a weapon was a jury question. See Bell v. State, 673 So.2d 556 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996). To the extent that L.B. establishes a per se rule for the definition of common pocketknife, the rule may be invoked only by a defendant who establishes conclusively that the knife in question has a blade length of four inches or less and that it was carried in the common manner, i.e. in a folded position.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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