Murdock’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. Joubert (2001), Van Sandt v. Brown (1997)
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 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 Terry v. Ohio · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Illinois v. Gates · Katz v. United States · Payton v. New York
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Exigent circumstances are] those circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to believe that entry ... was necessary to prevent physical harm to the officers or other persons, the destruction of relevant evidence, the escape of the suspect, or some other consequence improperly frustrating legitimate law enforcement efforts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was used against him by the Fontana police officers and that the Fontana Police Department has a policy or practice of taking similar action, he does not cite to any evidence in the record supporting these allegations, nor does he offer any cases or argument in support of the claims. We decline to consider them 3 Some courts have recognized an exception, distinct from exigent circumstances, where there is an emergency involving imminent danger to life or property such as where an officer observes a fire in a house or hears a scream from a house. These scenarios invoke the so-called”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Murdock v. Stout“There was no response. When the pat-down was completed, the police looked at his driver's license and identified him as the owner of the house. The majority opinion is pleased to describe this astounding series of events as a Terry stop. It is, however, difficult to know or even imagine what the basis for a Terry stop of a man asleep in his own bed might be. I trust that it is not that he had gone to sleep in his clothes that made him the object of the police belief that they confronted a criminal. The Terry rule was designed to cover”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Murdock v. Stout
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.