State v. Post’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Draper v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Consolidated Edison Co. of New York v. United States · Reserve Life Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sum total of the reams that have been written on the subject is that a peace officer may arrest without a warrant when he has reasonable grounds, in light of the circumstances of the moment as viewed through his eyes, for belief that a felony has been committed and that the person before him committed it. We require police officers to be reasonable; we too must be reasonable.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“without regard to technical errors or defects which do not affect the substantial rights of the parties,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hardesty
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.