State v. Harding’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2003
4 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 State v. Sands · State v. Carey
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“2. Powers_ No police officer has any authority in criminal or traffic infraction matters beyond the limits of the municipality in which the officer is appointed, except to: [[Image here]] E. Arrest a person who travels beyond the limits of the municipality in which the officer is appointed when in fresh pursuit of that person. This paragraph applies to all crimes and traffic infractions. As used in this paragraph: [[Image here]] (2) With respect to Class D and Class E crimes and traffic infractions, "fresh pursuit” means instant pursuit of a person with intent to apprehend....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Menard“Even if we consider [the officer’s] approach to [the defendant] as a “stop,” such an investigatory stop was easily justified in these circumstances. See State v. Cyr, 501 A.2d 1303 (Me.1985). After [the officer] approached [the defendant] and observed his condition, [the officer] had ample probable cause to believe the offense of operating under the influence had occurred in Livermore Falls.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hatch
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.