State v. Reldan’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 142 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Brown v. Grabowski (1990), State v. Marrero (1997)
3 federal appellate · 142 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 United States v. Leon · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · United States v. Ross · South Dakota v. Opperman
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be applied flexibly to serve the interests of justice.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The `law of the case' doctrine sometimes requires a decision of law made in a particular case to be respected by all other lower or equal courts during the pendency of that case.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[i]nterlocutory appellate review runs counter to a judicial policy that favors an `uninterrupted proceeding at the trial level with a single and complete review[,]'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.