State v. Colvin’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably State v. Cooke (2000), State v. Pierce (1994)
38 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 Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Florida v. Royer · Chambers v. Maroney
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“circumstances that make it impracticable to obtain a warrant when the police have probable cause to search the car.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“permits police to stop and search a moving or readily movable vehicle when there is probable cause to believe the vehicle contains criminally related objects. The rationale for this exception is grounded in the exigent circumstances created by the inherent mobility of vehicles and the somewhat lessened expectation of privacy in one’s vehicle. [State v. Patino, 83 N.J. 1, 9 , 414 A.2d 1327 (1980).]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is that the very same facts that constitute probable cause to arrest a vehicle's occupant often will afford police officers probable cause to believe that the vehicle contains evidence of crime or contraband. In that event,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cooke · State v. Pierce
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.