State v. Elk’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1999
21 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 United States v. Rabinowitz · Preston v. United States · Cooper v. State of California · People v. Williams · State v. Elkins
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.
“"If probable cause for an arrest exists independent of evidence brought to light by the search, the fact that the search precedes the arrest does not render the search unreasonable nor destroy its character as an incident of the arrest. [citations omitted]" State v. Elk, 249 Or. 614 , 439 P.2d 1011 (1968). [2]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is not essential that the officer absolutely know that an offense is being committed. * * * [C]ircumstances must exist which would lead a reasonably prudent [person] to believe in the guilt of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he officer must have probable cause to believe in the guilt of the suspected party; that is, circumstances must exist which would lead a reasonably prudent man to believe in the guilt of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Douglas
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.