State v. Towne’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Ross v. Times Mirror, Inc. (1995), State v. Lockwood (1993)
2 federal appellate · 61 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Illinois v. Gates · Carroll v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · Schmerber v. State of California
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conclude[d] that [Rule 3(a)(1)] permits state officers to make an arrest without a warrant where they have probable cause to believe that a federal felony is being or has been committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To the extent that Brown requires a rigid quantitative analysis for determining probable cause, we agree that it is not the correct standard and now overrule that portion of Brown .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Quigley“whether `a person of reasonable caution would conclude that a crime has been committed and that evidence of the crime will be found in the place to be searched,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Melchior
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.