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← 2003 MT 104 - State v. Van Dort

State v. Van Dort’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
September 2025
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brown v. Illinois · State v. Allies · State v. Williamson · State v. Scarborough · State v. Beach

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “if the officer has probable cause to believe that the person is committing an offense and existing circumstances require immediate arrest.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In Re ZM
  2. “involves something more than an officer's mere suspicion of criminal activity.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In Re ZM

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.