Brigham City v. Stuart’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Brigham City v. Stuart (2006), State v. Worwood (2007)
1 federal appellate · 29 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 Payton v. New York · Mincey v. Arizona · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · Illinois v. Rodriguez · Welsh v. Wisconsin
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not have an objectively reasonable basis to believe that .., there was an immediate need for assistance for the protection of life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Adams
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.