Sapp v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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

1. “the length of time and distance from the offense, route of flight, specificity of the description of the vehicle and its occupants, and the source of the BOLO information.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 872 So. 2d 1000 - Pantin v. State · 948 So. 2d 912 - Rodriguez v. State

2. “`newer white, four-door vehicle containing at least two black males' near 701 Northwest 19th Terrace”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 872 So. 2d 1000 - Pantin v. State · 80 So. 3d 1125 - MM v. State

3. “Id. at 1258-1259 . This Court held the BOLO in Sapp's case to be too general under these standards because it: provided no information as to the speed, direction, make or model of the car, the car was stopped some 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours after the BOLO was issued, Officer Fuller did not testify that appellant engaged in any suspicious conduct or activity consistent with guilt, and, as the trial court noted below, there were”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 872 So. 2d 1000 - Pantin v. State