State v. Estrada’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2023
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 United States v. Cortez · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · United States v. Martinez-Fuerte · Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz · Ingraham v. Wright
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.
“if the issues of residence or citizenship are resolved at the primary area of the checkpoint, referral of a vehicle to the secondary area must be based on at least reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Guzman“Any other result would give border agents unlimited discretion to detain vehicles even though the limited reasons for the original detention had already expired.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Guzman“the agent's observation regarding the spare tire could justify further questioning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Guzman
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.