Allen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Smith v. State (1948), Tucker v. State (1966)
47 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 Carroll v. United States · Marron v. United States · Steele v. United States No. 1 · Dumbra v. United States · Sugarman 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that no formula may be stated with reference to the test of what premises may be searched, and how the premises must be described, is shown by the cases collected in 3 A. L. R. 1518, 1519; 13 A. L. R. 1318, 1319; 27 A. L. R. 751-753; 39 A. L. R. 841; Cruz v. State, 114 Tex. Cr. R. 450 , 25 S. W. 2d 875 ; 68 A. L. R. 1186-1191. Every case will depend upon its particular facts and circumstances.” 236 Md. at 156 , 202 A. 2d at 762 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. State““It is upon this report of the officer, who had personal knowledge, that his superior officer made the information and oath upon which the judge rightly found the facts sufficient to constitute probable cause for the writ to issue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mazer 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.