State v. Mercante’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
August 2005
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Chimel v. California · State v. Oliveaux · Atwater v. City of Lago Vista · Negron 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The officer has no reasonable cause to believe that the person will cause injury to himself or another or damage to property or will continue in the same or a similar offense unless immediately arrested and booked.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the defendant could cause injury to himself and others ... [and] there was a reasonable likelihood that he would continue the same or similar lewd conduct, if he were not arrested and taken into custody.”
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.