State v. Trane’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State v. Baker (2010), State v. Bishop (2009)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Chimel v. California · Beck v. State of Ohio
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'facts and circumstances within the officer's knowledge that are sufficient to warrant a prudent person, or one of reasonable caution, in believing, in the circumstances shown, that the suspect has committed, is committing, or is about to commit an offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'justified in believing that the suspect had committed the offense”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(omission in original) (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)). Thus, we consider all the information that the agents knew about Defendant's alleged possession and transportation of drugs and determine whether the agents' actions in arresting Defendant were constitutionally valid based on that information. ¶10 “[The [United States] Constitution permits an officer to arrest a suspect without a warrant if there is probable cause to believe that the suspect has committed or is committing an offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.