State v. Roper’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Gathers v. Harris Teeter Supermarket, Inc. (1984), Diehl v. State (1982)
46 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 Draper v. United States · Michigan v. · Elliott v. Black River Electric Cooperative · State v. Swilling · State v. Peters
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.
“[a] police officer has probable cause to arrest without a warrant where he, `in good faith, believes that a person is guilty of a felony, and his belief rests on such grounds as would induce an ordinarily prudent and cautious man, under the circumstances, to believe likewise....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dunbar“all the evidence within the arresting officer's knowledge may be considered, including the details observed while responding to information received.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dunbar
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.