Bursack v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1996
16 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 Hafemann v. Seymer · Trzebietowski v. Jereski
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . If, however, the [officer], under the situation as presented to him, had reasonable grounds to disbelieve the statement that the conditions of the statute as to registration had been complied with by [the driver], then he might still be "justified in the eye of the law in making the arrest'although,'as a" matter of fact, the [driver] may not have committed the offense ; for the police officer charged with the duties and responsibilities that such officers are is not required to justify his action in making an arrest by a subsequent showing that as a matter of fact the offense was committed. It is sufficient if he has reasonable ground for believing that the offense has been committed by the person whom he then arrests.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gibbs“justified in the eye of the law in making the arrest'although,'as a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gibbs
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.