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← 797 P2D 1219 - Metzker v. State

Metzker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
6
states following
May 2009
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Coleman v. State · Baxter v. State · United States v. Ward · Goss v. State · State v. Shaffer

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “courts generally seem to be in agreement that the fourth amendment does not allow the police to stop potential witnesses to the same extent as suspects of a crime.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “a prompt investigation [was] required ... as a matter of practical necessity”
    1 later decision 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.