Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““It is clear, then, that where a bystander would tell an officer that he had at a time past witnessed a person commit a crime that would be classed as a misdemeanor, that the officer would not be authorized by law on such information, in the absence of a warrant for arrest, to summarily seek out the accused, and without more, arrest him. But, as may be discovered from a study of the cases cited immediately above, the officer ■ would have a right, and it would be his duty, to seek out and search for a person said to be operating a motor vehicle in a careless and reckless manner, or a surreptitious manner or even where the informant thought the operator intoxicated,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Curtis v. State