State v. Valdez’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably State v. Jacobs (2000), State v. Saiz (2008)
45 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 Terry v. Ohio · Michigan v. Long · Maryland v. Buie · Vale v. Louisiana · B.D. International Discount Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an emergency situation requiring swift action to prevent imminent danger to life or serious damage to property, or to forestall the imminent escape of a suspect or destruction of evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] protective sweep may be undertaken if the searching officers possess a reasonable belief based on specific and articulable facts which, taken together with the rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant[s] the officer in believing that the area swept har-bored an individual posing a danger to the officer or others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trudelle · State v. Jacobs“[a] protective sweep is only allowed incident to a lawful arrest. " Id. (emphasis added). {22} The State half-heartedly asserts that the arrest of Mrs. Trudelle "could arguably support a protective sweep of the premises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trudelle
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.