State v. Hocker’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably State v. Hyde (1996), State v. Epperson (1985)
54 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 Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Adams v. Williams · Davis v. Mississippi · 1 Cal. 3d 423 - Irwin v. Superior Court
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There must be a reasonable suspicion by the law enforcement officer that `some activity out of the ordinary' is or has occurred, some suggestion to connect the detained person with the unusual activity, and some indication that the activity is related to crime." State v. Hocker, 113 Ariz. 450, 457 , 556 P.2d 784, 791 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Schutte · State v. Jarzab“b. Burden of Proof on Pretrial Motions to Suppress Evidence. The prosecutor shall have the burden of proving, by a preponderance of the evidence, the lawfulness in all respects of the acquisition of all evidence which he will use at trial. However, whenever the defense is entitled under Rule 15 to discover the circumstances surrounding the taking of any evidence by confession, or search and seizure, or defense counsel was present at the taking, or the evidence was obtained pursuant to a valid search warrant, the prosecutor’s burden of proof shall arise only after the defendant has come forward with evidence of specific circumstances which establish a prima facie case that the evidence taken should be suppressed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fimbres“particularly weighty duty not to influence the jury because the defendant has no representative to watch out for his interests”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Maretick v. Jarrett
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.