State v. Timson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
234 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 111 Ohio App. 3d 142 - State v. Medcalf (1996), State v. Homan (2000)
234 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2071 · 18 U.S.C. § 401
Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Henry v. United States · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary
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 234 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.”
19 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.