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← 863 SO2D 459 - Brown v. State

Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on New York v. Belton · Illinois v. Wardlow · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · 614 So. 2d 468 - Thomas v. State · 640 So. 2d 1206 - Williams 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The touchstone of Fourth Amendment analysis is the reasonableness in all the circumstances of the governmental invasion of a citizen's personal security.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Furtive movements may give rise to a reasonable suspicion that someone is armed and dangerous.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “fidgeting as though he were trying to conceal something,”
    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.