State v. Bedolla’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably State v. Duffy (1998), State v. Flores (1996)
2 federal appellate · 87 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 · Illinois v. Gates · Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the record is that the officers, . . . seized, detained and transported [the defendant] . . . in the hope of developing probable cause or obtaining a consent to search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sewell“[t]he temporal proximity of the arrest and the confession, the presence of intervening circumstances, . . . and, particularly, the purpose and flagrancy of the official misconduct are all relevant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Santiago“[T]he proper question in evaluating whether a consent was tainted by prior illegality is whether there was `[sufficient] attenuation between the [illegality] and the consent to search.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor
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.