State v. Epperson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably State v. Blades (1993), Commonwealth v. Young (1981)
52 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 · Brinegar v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Johnson v. United States · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . apparent death may turn out to be barely surviving life, still to be saved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““In general, an entry and search without a warrant are deemed unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States unless the action falls within certain carefully delineated exceptions .... The burden is on the State to show an exception exists.” State v. Epperson, 571 S.W.2d 260, 263 (Mo. banc 1978), cert. denied, 442 U.S. 909 , 99 S.Ct. 2820 , 61 L.Ed.2d 274 (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. King“. . . the bodies, plastic bags and chloroformed socks and venetian blind cord were discovered in the bedroom and admissible under the plain view doctrine and the evidence from the other part of the house (i. e., the gasoline can, chisel, bottle of chloroform and certain of the photographs) were within the scope of the emergency exception.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rogers
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.