207 So. 2d 104 - Nash v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2015
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 People v. Winston · Lorenzen v. Superior Court · 164 Cal. App. 2d 322 - People v. McCarty · People v. Ball · People v. Burgess
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An officer or private person may arrest any person without warrant, for an indictable offense committed, or a breach of the peace threatened or attempted in his presence; or when a person has committed a felony, though not in his presence; or when a felony has been committed, and he has reasonable ground to suspect and believe the person proposed to be arrested to have committed it; or on a charge, made upon reasonable cause, of the commission of a felony by the party proposed to be arrested.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Delker v. State · Atwell v. State“an arrest by a city policeman outside his territorial jurisdiction is unquestionably valid if made upon grounds which would authorize a lawful arrest by a private citizen.”); accord, People v. Burgess, 170 Cal.App.2d 36 , 338 P.2d 524 ; People v. McCarty, 164 Cal.App.2d 322 , 330 P.2d 484 (1958); People v. Ball, 162 Cal.App.2d 465 , 328 P.2d 276 (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The sheriff and his deputy] knew that a man, while stopped off the side of the highway, had been struck and killed by a car and that the driver had not stopped. They knew they were looking for I.V. Nash, but the record does not disclose whether they knew I.V. Nash personally. The sheriff and his deputy went to the intersection of the road leading to Nash’s father’s home with Highway 21 in Neshoba County. They had searched about an hour before finding appellant. A car came from a little country road into Highway 21 and seemed about to come into the side road were [sic] the officers were but suddenly turned and headed north. The sheriff said “we” [sic] hollered at them and they stopped. Nash and some others were in the car. The officers told the occupants to get out because they wanted to talk to them. According to Mr. [R.D.] Simmons, [Sheriff of Scott County,] the officers asked the occupants if they knew anything about the accident. Nash spoke up and said that there was no need to hold anybody else because he was the one the officers wanted. The sheriff testified that when they stopped the car, Nash immediately started talking, saying that he was the one they were looking for and that he killed his best friend. This statement was before any arrest. There had been no charge against Nash. After Nash had made these statements, the sheriff directed him to get into the officers’ car[.] Nash ivas then taken to his father’s home, permitted to go in for a few moments, and, upon retu”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Delker v. State
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