Brewer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Stone v. State (2002), Scroggins v. State (1982)
30 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 Brown v. Illinois · Dunaway v. New York · Olles v. State · Sanders v. State
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]robable cause is only a reasonable ground of suspicion supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in themselves to warrant a conscious man to believe that the accused committed a felony, but not tantamount to the quantum of proof required to support a conviction ... The existence of probable cause depends upon the facts and circumstances of which the arresting officer has knowledge at the moment of the arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owens v. State“A law enforcement officer may arrest a person without a warrant if the officer has reasonable cause to believe that such person has committed ... (iii) any violation of law in the officer's presence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sullivan
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.