State v. Bruno’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 1993
2 district · 10 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 Simmons v. United States · Jones v. United States · Alderman v. United States · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Preston v. United States
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The basis for testing the actions of the arresting officer as to the issue of probable cause must be one of reasonableness and cannot be overly .technical, especially when viewed from the lofty height of hindsight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lykken v. Vavreck
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.