State v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Cooke (1982), State v. Brown (1987)
82 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Sedillo 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"a killing where the assassin has stationed himself or is lying in ambush for a private attack upon his victim. An assailant who watches and waits in ambush for his victim is most certainly lying in wait. However, it is not necessary that he be actually concealed in order to lie in wait. If one places himself in a position to make a private attack upon his victim and assails him at a time when the victim does not know of the assassin's presence or, if he does know, is not aware of his purpose to kill him, the killing would constitute a murder perpetrated by lying in wait. Certainly one who has lain in wait would not lose his status because he was not concealed at the time he shot his victim. The fact that he reveals himself or the victim discovers his presence will not prevent the murder from being perpetrated by lying in wait. Indeed, a person may lie in wait in a crowd as well as behind a log or a hedge."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Camacho · State v. Gosnell“[A]n exigent circumstance is found to exist in the "presence of an emergency or dangerous situation" and may include: a suspect's fleeing or seeking to escape, possible destruction of a controlled substance, and "the degree of probable cause to believe the suspect committed the crime involved[.]"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the circumstances of a particular case render impracticable a delay to obtain a warrant, a warrantless search on probable cause is permissible....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.