Rayford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Montanez v. State (2006), Russeau v. State (2005)
6 federal appellate · 51 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he validity of a consent to search is a question of fact to be determined from all the circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A voluntary consensual search is an exception to the probable cause and warrant requirements of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 9 of the Texas Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Levi v. State“Contrary to appellant's claims, we know of no authority that requires informing a suspect of his rights under Miranda before obtaining a consent to search, and appellant points to none.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cleveland v. State
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.