Howard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
September 1994
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Wong Sun v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Beck v. State of Ohio
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“His [the defendant’s] description had been given by two eye-witnesses, along with the license number of the automobile driven by the thief (which, it later developed, was registered to the defendant’s sister). The conclusion is inescapable that this evidence, obtained independently of the challenged arrest, would have led police to Howard sooner or later.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Coury
How this case has been treated — in progress
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