State v. Palacio’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Lund (1990), State v. McDougald (1990)
47 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 National Farmers Union Insurance v. Crow Tribe of Indians · Gouveia v. Hammond Clinic & General Finance Co. · State v. Reyes · United States v. Collazo · State v. Brown
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat defendant appeared nervous while the police searched the car proves little more than that the presence of police officers tends to make most people somewhat apprehensive.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the fact that the defendant was an occupant of a vehicle, which undoubtedly contained cocaine, ... the status of the defendant in relation to the vehicle, how long ... the defendant [was] in the vehicle, ... the proximity of the defendant to the drugs that were ultimately found in the vehicle, ... whether or not those drugs were easily accessible to him, ... his demeanor when he was confronted by the police, his nervousness, if any, [and] his feigning lack of knowledge of the English language, if any. [The jury may also] consider whether or not it was reasonable for him to be an innocent occupant of the motor vehicle, and ... any other evidence or lack of evidence that has a bearing upon the elements in this case, [including] anything that might have, or might not have been found of an incriminatory nature on the defendant’s person, [and proximity or lack thereof] ... of the defendant’s personal articles ... to where the drugs were located. [Id. at 547-48, 545 A.2d 764 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was sweating, moving in circles, and appeared, in [the state trooper's] opinion, to be `overly nervous'.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.