Little v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2018
8 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · McBride v. United States · Mills v. State · Rowbotham v. State · Bishop 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To determine whether there is probable cause, the court must look at the time of arrest and examine the facts and circumstances within the knowledge of the arresting officers at that moment, that is, whether the officers had reasonably trustworthy information sufficient to warrant the belief of a prudent person that the arrestee had committed or was committing a felony, (citations omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · Bennett v. State“The statutes provide as follows: A peace officer may, without a warrant, arrest a person: * * * When a felony has in fact been committed, and he has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it. 22 O.S.1981, § 196.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bennett 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.