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← 31 SO3D 1037 - State v. SURTAIN

State v. SURTAIN’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

24 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Brinegar v. United States · Chimel v. California · Ornelas 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a] peace officer may, without a warrant, arrest a person when ... [t]he person to be arrested has committed an offense in his presence; and if the arrest is for a misdemeanor, it must be made immediately or on close pursuit”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[a] traditional exception to the warrant requirement is a search incident to a lawful arrest based upon probable cause”
    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.