Bergfeld v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Peterson v. State (1996), Lampkins v. State (1997)
28 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · Jizmejian v. United States · Ex Parte Milligan · Alfaro v. State
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intent and capability to maintain dominion and control”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[elven if there was evidence that the jurors did in fact see [defendant] handcuffed, appellant has shown no prejudice because jurors would reasonably expect that anyone in police custody would be restrained, regardless of the nature of the charge against the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Badelle v. State“Probable cause exists when, at the time of the arrest, the arresting officer has knowledge of facts and circumstances which would warrant a man of reasonable caution to believe that the defendant committed the criminal act in question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Armour 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.