Russell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If a peace officer arrest a person without a warrant, he is not bound to show in his justification a felony actually committed to render the arrest lawful, but if he suspects one on his own knowledge of facts, or upon facts communicated to him by others, and thereupon has reasonable ground to believe that the accused has been guilty of a felony, the arrest is not unlawful.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Byrnes v. State · Battles v. State

2. ““An officer may at night, without a warrant, arrest any person whom he has reasonable cause to believe to have committed a felony, and is justified in making the arrest though it afterward appeared that the felony had not been committed.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Estep v. State · Ellis v. State