State v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably State v. Walters (1996), State v. Arredondo (1997)
34 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 South Dakota v. Opperman · Colorado v. Bertine · Illinois v. Lafayette · White v. United States · Ramirez v. United States
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there was substantial evidence to find that the inventory of [the d]efendant's cigarette pack ... was reasonably made in furtherance of both the protection of the arrestee's property and to protect the police against false claims because items of value such as money, rings, and bracelets are often temporarily stored in open cigarette packs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Byrom“in furtherance of any one of three purposes: (1) to protect the arrestee's property while it remains in police custody; (2) to protect the police against claims or disputes over lost or stolen property; or (3) to protect the police from potential danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Byrom“that a clearly established inventory procedure may properly require that jailers search all containers, including cigarette packs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Byrom
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.