State v. Lala’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 2009
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · United States v. Place
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probable cause to arrest exists when the facts and circumstances known to the officer, and of which he has reasonably trustworthy information, are sufficient to justify a man of ordinary caution in believing the person to be arrested has committed an offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dowell
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.