State v. Dell’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
46
cited by 46 later decisions
2
states following
August 1983
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Carroll v. United States · Chambers v. Maroney · Weeks v. United States · Preston v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . exists when the facts and circumstances within the arresting officer's knowledge, and of which he has reasonable, trustworthy information, are sufficient in themselves to justify a man of average caution in the belief that an offense has been or is being committed. Compliance with these standards is, in the first instance, a substantive determination to be made by the trial court from the facts and circumstances of the case.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Foster · State v. Wood
How this case has been treated — in progress
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