State v. Cochran’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2015
1 district · 10 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 Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · De Salvatore v. State · State v. Gwinn · Garner v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probable cause is an elusive concept which avoids precise definition. Generally, it lies 'somewhere between suspicion and sufficient evidence to convict.’ [I]t exists when the ‘facts and circumstances ... (are) sufficient in themselves to warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief.... ’”
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.