867 So. 2d 534 - Nelson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2021
11 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 United States v. Place · United States v. Jacobsen · Harris v. United States · Oliver v. United States · O'CONNOR v. Ortega
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The fact that a dog, as odor detector, is more skilled than a human does not render the dog's sniff illegal. Just as evidence in the plain view of an officer may be searched without a warrant, evidence in the plain smell may be detected without a warrant."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a sensory enhancing animal that was unable to detect contraband until it was within eighteen inches to three feet of the lower door jam[b]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“indicat[ing] that a possessor of contraband can maintain no legitimate expectation that its presence will not be revealed. No legitimate expectation of privacy is impinged by governmental conduct that can reveal nothing about noncontraband items.”
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.