15 Or. App. 1 - State v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 18 Mass. App. Ct. 685 - Commonwealth v. Skea (1984), 40 Wash. App. 257 - State v. Ludvik (1985)
33 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . [Ojfficial involvement is not measured by the primary occupation of the actor, but by the capacity in which he acts at the time in question. 8”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. JMA v. State · J. M. A. v. State“"Having discovered the marihuana we believe that [the mechanic/officer] acted properly in notifying the local police department.... It was proper for [the mechanic/officer] to remove the ash tray from the automobile and dump the contents into an evidence envelope provided by Officer Havicus...."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Kennedy“The crucial question therefore becomes the extent of the official involvement ... [which] turns on the capacity in which [the mechanic/officer] acted when he found the marijuana....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Kennedy
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.