State v. Vineyard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * The evidence in issue to be admissible must be the product of a lawful arrest in the absence of a search warrant, and, in turn, the lawfulness of the arrest sans a warrant, is to be based and tested upon probable cause. State v. Novak, 428 S.W.2d 585, 591 [2, 3] (Mo.1968). Police officers may arrest without a warrant if reasonable cause exists for them to believe that the person arrested is guilty of a recent felony [State v. Hammonds, 459 S.W.2d 365, 369 (Mo.1970); State v. Johnson, 420 S.W.2d 305, 308 [2] (Mo.1967)], and ‘Dealing with probable cause for arrest requires dealing with probabilities which are not technical but “are the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act. The standard of proof is accordingly correlative to what must be proved. * * * Probable cause exists where ‘the facts and circumstances within . . . [the officers’] knowledge and of which they have 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,” Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. 160, 175-176 [4], 69 S.Ct. 1302, 1311 , 93 L.Ed. 1879 , and “The substance of all the definitions (of probable cause) is a reasonable ground for belief of guilt,” Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132, 161 , 45 S.Ct. 280, 288 , 69 L.Ed. 543 .’ State v. Novak, supra, 428 S.W.2d at 591 [6, 7].””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Drake