State v. Hack’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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

1. “Probable cause for an arrest exists if the officer has reasonable cause to believe that the person arrested has committed a felony. Probable cause does not require that the officer see the commission of a felony. “ ‘Probable cause does not require the same type of specific evidence of each element of the offense as would be needed to support a conviction,’____” State v. Brewer, 190 Neb. 667, 674-75 , 212 N.W.2d 90, 94 (1973). If the facts available to the officer at the time of the arrest would warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief the action was appropriate, then probable cause exists.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Harrison

2. ““ ‘[T]he test of probable cause ... is whether at the moment the facts and circumstances within their (the officers’) knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information were sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing that the petitioner had committed or was committing an offense.’ ” In this regard, we have also held that probable cause is to be evaluated by the collective information of the police engaged in a common investigation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Harrison