45 Ala. App. 1 - White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1992 · most notably 48 Ala. App. 178 - Sellers v. State (1972), 401 So. 2d 251 - Smith v. State (1981)
25 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 Brinegar v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · United States v. Rabinowitz · Henry v. United States · Preston 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The determination of what amounts to probable cause is based on a `reasonable man' standard. `Probable cause exists where "the facts and circumstances within their [the officers'] knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information [are] sufficient in themselves to warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that" an offense has been or is being committed.'"”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. C.M.B. v. State · CMB v. State“the burden is on the state to show that the arrest was lawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hadley v. State
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.