Beck v. State of Ohio’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2,939 federal appellate · 588 district · 3,913 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9,513 later decisions (110 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Terry v. Ohio (1968), Illinois v. Gates (1983)
2,939 federal appellate · 588 district · 3,913 state decisions — followed in 50 states
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 Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States
Cited together with Brinegar v. United States · Terry v. Ohio · Carroll v. United States · Draper v. United States · Henry 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 9,513 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the facts and circumstances within [the officers'] knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information were sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing that the petitioner had committed or was committing an offense.”
342 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.””
85 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““An arrest without a warrant bypasses the safeguards provided by an objective predetermination of probable cause, and substitutes instead the far less reliable procedure of an after-the-event justification for the arrest or search too likely to be subtly influenced by the familiar shortcomings of hindsight judgment. ‘Whether or not the requirements of reliability and particularity of the information on which an officer may act are more stringent where an arrest warrant is absent, they surely cannot be less stringent than where an arrest warrant is obtained. Otherwise, a principal incentive now existing for the procurement of arrest warrants would be destroyed.’ Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471 , 479-480, 83 S.Ct. 407 , 9 L.Ed.2d 441 .””
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.