O'Brien v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably United States v. Kelly (1932), Ajabu v. State (1998)
5 federal appellate · 43 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Powers v. State · State v. Ah Chuey · State v. . Graham · McCool v. State · Ford 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case is much like the examination of a person under arrest, for concealed weapons with which he could have committed the crime of murder of which he is accused, or for stolen property, when ■he is accused of larceny, and the right to examine the person of the accused for such purpose has never been questioned.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alldredge 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.