State v. Greenwald’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2024
24 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 Chimel v. California · Colorado v. Bertine · Florida v. Wells
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n inventory search must not be a ruse for general rummaging in order to discover incriminating evidence. The policy or practice governing inventory searches should be designed to produce an inventory. The individual police officer must not be allowed so much latitude that inventory searches are turned into "a purposeful and general means of discovering evidence of crime."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he authority to search incident to arrest derives from the need to disarm and prevent any evidence from being concealed or destroyed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the officer was not doing what he was doing just for the sake of taking inventory of Greenwald's 'valuables,'”
2 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.