Sears v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Gibson v. State (2000), Scisney v. State (1998)
42 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 · Terry v. Ohio · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Carroll v. United States · Rhode Island v. Innis
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An arrest occurs when a police officer interrupts the freedom of the accused and restricts his liberty of movement.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Newell v. State · Wilson v. State“Probable cause exists when, at the time of the arrest, the arresting officer has knowledge of facts and circumstances that would warrant a person of reasonable caution to believe that the suspect had committed a criminal act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“at the time of the arrest, the officer has knowledge of facts and circumstances that would warrant a person of reasonable caution to believe that the suspect committed a criminal act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Newell v. State · Merchant 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.