State v. Herrera’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably State v. Gutierrez (1993), State v. Alvarez-Lopez (2004)
4 federal appellate · 28 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 · Massachusetts v. Sheppard · State v. Williams · State v. Simonson · State v. Worley
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here were insufficient facts to show probable cause to search the premises described for evidence of [the] murder; therefore, the search was illegal under both state and federal guarantees against unreasonable searches and seizures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not do away with the basic requirement that the residence to be searched must be established to be that of the suspect, or alternatively, that the items sought to be seized are located at that residence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trujillo“the existence of probable cause to believe that a suspect has committed murder is ordinarily sufficient to justify a search of the suspect's home, the surrounding area, and his business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trujillo
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.