Backus v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
April 1988
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Palmer v. State · Duke v. State · Gilmore 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test of whether a police officer has probable cause to make a warrantless arrest is whether, at the moment the arrest was made, the facts and circumstances, within his knowledge, and of which he had reasonable trustworthy information, were sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing that the arres-tee had committed or was committing an offense. Backus v. State, 635 P.2d 1021 (Okl.Cr.1981).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oman 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.