State v. Michael G.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably State v. Bedolla (1991), State v. Taylor (1998)
37 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 New Jersey v. T. L. O. · Bowsher v. Merck & Co. · Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · State v. Franklin
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person who purports to be a witness or a victim of a crime may be presumed reliable,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Statements by eyewitness citizen-informants are subject to much less stringent credibility verification requirements than ordinary police informants' statements because citizens presumably have nothing to gain by fabrication. . . . In the absence of facts indicating a reason for rejecting this doctrine where students are the informants, we will apply it in this case. A student's direct statement to a person in authority, indicating personal knowledge of facts which establish that another student is engaging in illegal conduct, may provide school authorities reasonable grounds to search the . . . student[]. . . . The willingness to identify oneself to the authorities as an eyewitness provides an accurate indicator of credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the child’s age, history and record in school; the prevalence and seriousness of the problem in the school to which the search was directed; the exigencies in making a search without delay and further investigation; the probative value and reliability of the information used as a justification for the search; and the particular teacher or school official’s experience with the student.”
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.