People v. Berck’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2002 · most notably Lefkowitz v. Newsome (1975), 311 So. 2d 104 - State v. Ecker (1975)
17 federal appellate · 20 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 Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Thornhill v. Alabama · United States v. Harriss · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville · Davis v. Mississippi
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under circumstances which justify suspicion that he may be engaged or about to engage in crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if suspicion of criminality happens to be created in the mind of the arresting officer.”
2 later decisions 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.