80 So. 2d 694 - Byrd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1987 · most notably Elkins v. United States (1960), Morgan v. Town of Heidelberg (1963)
27 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 Carroll v. United States · Brown v. State · Robertson v. State · Collins v. State · Cox 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Putting together the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States and the decisions of this court, which we think are harmonious, we reach the conclusion that it is safer procedure to secure a search warrant preliminary to stopping a motorist and searching his car; that if halting, searching and seizing are accomplished without such a warrant the officer must be prepared to show that he had "probable cause" for his acts or "reasonable belief" or "trustworthy information" that the car was engaged in the transportation of contraband.'"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. State · Sagonias v. State“`The law seeks to prevent the transportation of contraband whiskey, i.e., whiskey upon which THE REQUIRED tax has not been paid, and although the officers saw, tasted and smelled the substance dripping from appellant's truck and pronounced it to be whiskey, it is obvious that they could not identify it as contraband whiskey because no one can discover the absence of a revenue stamp by such tests.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Altman · State v. Carlisle“"In reaching our conclusion in this case, it is not our intention to suggest that when `probable cause' does exist an officer may not stop a vehicle. There are, moreover, many valid and legitimate reasons for stopping vehicles upon the highway, and we do not mean to cast a doubt upon such lawful procedure. What we do hold is that the appellant's constitutional rights have been violated in this case, and the fruits of such violation cannot be used against him." (At page 697)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richardson v. State
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.