State v. Bjerke’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2019
16 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 · Whren v. United States · Delaware v. Prouse · Ker v. State of California
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the authorities can demonstrate a quantum of knowledge known as probable cause [which] * * * exists where a reasonable [person] of caution would believe a suspect had committed or is committing an offense.” State v. Bjerke, 697 A.2d 1069, 1071 (R.I.1997). On the other hand,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Abdullah“even if briefly, the Fourth Amendment is implicated and the detention must be in conformance with the strictures of that amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Flores“information behind them are within the control and custody of the state through the Registry of Motor Vehicles).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Segars
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.