O'HARA v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Wiede v. State (2007), Balentine v. State (2002)
48 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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Dunaway v. New York · Michigan v. Long · Pennsylvania v. Mimms
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no legal requirement that a policeman must feel 'scared' by the threat of danger” because”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dumas · State v. Sheppard“Regardless of whether [the officer] stated he was afraid, the validity of the search must be analyzed by determining whether the facts available to [the officer] at the time of the search would warrant a reasonably cautious person to believe that the action taken was appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dumas“[T]his testimony is irrelevant ... [because] it occurred at trial, not at the hearing on O'Hara's motion to suppress evidence. On appellate review, we must examine the record as it existed at the time of the suppression hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McAllister 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.