Stevenson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Revene v. Charles County Commissioners (1989), Grandison v. State (1986)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 76 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Wong Sun v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Payton v. New York · Draper v. United States · United States v. Watson
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In Maryland a private person has authority to arrest without a warrant ... when ... there is a felony being committed in his presence.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Generally, a peace officer's authority to make an arrest is limited, in the absence of statutory authority expanding it, to the confines of the geographical unit of which he is an officer.... At common law, a limited exception to this rule developed which permits an officer who is in “fresh pursuit” of a suspected felon to make a legally binding arrest in a territorial jurisdiction other than the one in which he has been appointed to act ... and this ancient doctrine has, to some extent, been codified in this State... In all other situations, however, a peace officer who makes an arrest while in another jurisdiction does so as a private person, and may only act beyond his bailiwick to the extent that the law of the place of arrest authorizes such individuals to do so.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(b) A police officer who has probable cause to believe that a felony or misdemeanor is being committed in the officer’s presence or within the officer’s view, may arrest without a warrant any person whom the officer may reasonably believe to have committed such offense. . (c) A police officer may arrest a person without a warrant if the officer has probable cause to believe that a felony has been committed or attempted and that such person has committed or attempted to commit a felony whether or not in the officer’s presence or view.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Collins v. State · Woods 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.