Patrick v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying the exigent circumstances doctrine analysis to an illegal entry into a residence
• ‘‘[f]requently, the report of a death proves inaccurate and a spark of life remains, sufficient to respond to emergency police aid’’
• \[T]he criterion is the reasonableness of the belief of the police as to the existence of an emergency-\
• “It follows that a search warrant is not required to legalize an entry by police for the purpose of bringing emergency aid to an injured person.”
• applying the emergency doctrine to tainted evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

54 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Mincey v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-21· cited 3,849×
• People v. Mitchell
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-04-06· cited 458×
• Brimage v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 376×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-09-22· cited 301×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-10-26· cited 216×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-02-03· cited 152×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1967-03-27· cited 126×
• State v. Loewen
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-07-01· cited 112×
• Wofford v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1997-10-02· cited 83×
• State v. Prober
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1980-09-30· cited 78×
• Lonquest v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1972-03-23· cited 75×
• City of Nome v. Ailak
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-09-23· cited 71×
• State v. Epperson
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1978-09-12· cited 67×
• Seward v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1999-01-22· cited 66×
• Stevens v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1968-07-23· cited 62×
• State v. Philbrick
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1981-10-27· cited 58×
• People v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1976-12-13· cited 46×
• State v. Sutton
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1970-03-09· cited 40×
• People v. Brooks
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-08-14· cited 38×
• Weltz v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1967-09-14· cited 37×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ker v. California
  Supreme Court· 1963-06-10· cited 3,146×
• Miller v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-06-23· cited 1,055×
• Lewis L. Wayne v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1963-04-04· cited 479×
• United States v. Salvatore J. Barone
  Second Circuit· 1964-06-22· cited 166×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-10-22· cited 57×
• Holland v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1954-09-28· cited 15×