28 Utah 2d 129 - State v. Eastmond’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 1996 · most notably Terry v. Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution (1979), State v. Anderson (1996)
35 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 Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Chambers v. Maroney · Draper v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The determination should be made on an objective standard: whether from the facts known to the officer, and the inferences which fairly might be drawn therefrom, a reasonable and prudent person in his position would be justified in believing that the suspect had committed the offense.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Anderson · State v. Lee“(3) When he has reasonable cause to believe the person has committed a public offense, and there is reasonable cause for believing the person may: (a) Flee or conceal himself to avoid arrest; (b) Destroy or conceal evidence of the commission of the offense; or (c) Injure another person or damage property belonging to another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where the officer observes some property in plain sight which he has good reason to believe is stolen, . . [he is not prevented] from making further reasonable search of the immediate area to see if there is other stolen property. 13”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Austin
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.