Stacey v. Emery’s Empirical Analysis
97 U.S. 642 · 1878
Citation profile
107 federal appellate · 28 district · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 305 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Terry v. Ohio (1968), Carroll v. United States (1925)
107 federal appellate · 28 district · 95 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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 The Apollon · Gelston v. Hoyt · Silas Talbot v. Hans Frederick Seeman · Gaussen 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 305 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the facts and circumstances before the officer are such as to warrant a man of prudence and caution in believing that the offence has been committed, it is sufficient.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Probable canse for an arrest has been defined to be a reasonable ground o£ suspicion supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in themselves to warrant a cautious man in believing the accused to be guilty.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If there was a probable cause of seizure, there was a reasonable cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.