State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably State v. Chaney (1982), 720 So. 2d 1179 - State v. Fisher (1998)
49 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 Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · Nathanson 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A warrantless arrest, no less than an arrest pursuant to a validly issued warrant, must be based on probable cause. [citations omitted] Probable cause exists when facts and circumstances within the arresting officer's knowledge and of which he has reasonable and trustworthy information are sufficient to justify a man of average caution in the belief that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing an offense. [citations omitted] While the officer need not have sufficient proof to convict, mere suspicion is not enough to justify an arrest. [citations omitted] "LaFave, `Street Encounters' and the Constitution: Terry, Sibron, Peters and Beyond, 67 Mich.L.Rev. 40, 73-74 (1968) observes:”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Scott · State v. Nieto“more evidence for [the existence of criminal conduct] than against”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... shall issue without probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, ... particularly describing the place to be searched, the persons or things to be seized, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Haynie
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.