State v. Demeter’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably State v. Cooke (2000), State v. Johnson (2002)
71 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 Illinois v. Gates · Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · United States v. Ventresca
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a practical, common-sense decision whether, given all the circumstances ... there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a finding of probable cause that its contents were criminal is to be sustained, then, it must be shown ... that the officer's conclusion, when viewed in light of his special training or experience would persuade the average reasonably prudent person that such a finding was justified. [ State v. Demeter, 124 N.J. 374, 386 , 590 A. 2d 1179 (1991).]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]ome containers ... by their very nature cannot support any reasonable expectation of privacy because their contents can be inferred from their outward appearance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.