State v. Applegate’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Tierney ex rel. Newton v. Davidson (1998), 127 Ohio App. 3d 414 - State v. Russell (1998)
2 district · 100 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 · Katz v. United States · Mincey v. Arizona · Wayne v. United States · Knapp v. United States
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The need to protect or preserve life or avoid serious injury is justification for what would be otherwise illegal absent an exigency or emergency.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“strictly circumscribed by the exigencies which justify its initiation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Exigent circumstances justify a warrantless entry into a residence by police when police are at the residence pursuant to an emergency call reporting domestic violence and where the officers hear sounds coming from inside the residence which are indicative of violence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.