Capps v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Gaddis v. State (1969), Manlove v. State (1968)
2 federal appellate · 72 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 Brinegar v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Johnson v. United States · Henry v. United States · United States v. Smith
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has long been held in Indiana that a peace officer may arrest a suspect without a warrant when he has reasonable and probable cause for believing that a felony is being, or has been committed by the person arrested. Johns v. State (1956), 235 Ind. 464 , 134 N. E. 2d 552 ; Pearman v. State (1954), 233 Ind. 111 , 117 N. E. 2d 362 ; Koscielski v. State (1927), 199 Ind. 546 , 158 N. E. 902 . A police officer may base his belief that there is reasonable and probable cause for arresting a person on information received from another. Long v. State (1929), 89 Ind. App. 496 , 167 N. E. 140 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In our modern mass society, in which a felon can quickly escape to the safety of his residence or disappear into the crowd after breaking the law, fast action by law enforcement agencies which might result in apprehension of the criminal within minutes of the crime is of great importance. Where the police demonstrate an ability to accomplish an almost instantaneous arrest of the wrongdoer, as was done in this case, public confidence in law enforcement agencies grows, the public sense of security is strengthened, and po tential felons may be moved to reconsider the magnitude of the risk they would take by laying their freedom on the line in committing a serious crime. “It would be neither wise nor judicious for this Court to penalize the police for their efficiency and alertness where their action, has not resulted in the infringement of a citizen’s substantial rights. For this Court to say that the information possessed by the arresting officers in this case was not sufficient or trustworthy enough to give them probable cause to arrest the defendant would be to take the handcuffs off the criminal and put them on the police.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lynch v. State
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.