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← 106 R.I. 280 - State v. Roach

State v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis

1969

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
February 1984
most recently cited

26 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Draper v. United States · State v. McWeeney

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““A peace officer may without a warrant arrest a person for a felony, whenever: (a) The officer has reasonable ’ground to believe that a felony has been or is being committed and that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing it.””
    2 later decisions 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.