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← 96 Fla. 232 - Driggers v. State

Driggers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1928

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
6
states following
September 2006
most recently cited

33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2006 · most notably Fitch v. State (1938), 77 Cal. App. 2d 734 - People v. Quinn (1947)

33 state decisions

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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 Lundy v. State · Molton v. State · Kemp v. State · Long v. State · Croom 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““It is generally held, however, that the asportation of the property or the carrying away of the same is completed by even the slightest removal of the thing stolen from its original position. . . ””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. C. E. v. State · 47 So. 2d 541 - Lyons v. State
  2. “By the act of these accused persons [the animal] was removed from a standing position to a prone position upon its side. The act was done for the purpose of depriving the owner of his property without his consent and to appropriate it to the use of the slayers of the beast, but there was no actual removal of the carcass from the spot of ground where it lay when it fell.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 432 So. 2d 758 - Johnson v. State
  3. “by the slightest removal of the thing from the place where the owner placed it, or wanted it to be, and though the transfer of possession existed for a very brief period of time”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 47 So. 2d 541 - Lyons 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.