State v. Guzman’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Heien v. North Carolina (2014), State v. Gutierrez (1993)
79 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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. Leon · Smith v. State · Salinas v. Vierstra · Houghland Farms, Inc. v. Johnson · Harrison v. Taylor
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]rom these "precedents" we can glean that prior decisions of this Court should govern unless they are manifestly wrong or have proven over time to be unjust or unwise. While I am prepared to accept these limitations on the rule of stare decisis, I am not prepared to allow these limitations to convert the precedents of this Court into ephemeral edicts that are here today and gone tomorrow, the duration of their lifespan depending on the composition and disposition of the Court. This is not to say that I am unwilling to overrule precedent that is manifestly wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dopp“hesitant to reverse ourselves when a doctrine, a defense, or a holding in a case, has been proven over time to be unjust or unwise,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dopp
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.