State v. Schaffer’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably 49 Va. App. 439 - Williams v. Commonwealth (2007), State v. Fleenor (1999)
41 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 Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Michigan v. Long · Sedillo 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] `general desire to be sure that no one is hiding in the place searched is not sufficient' to justify a protective sweep outside the immediate area where an arrest has occurred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burgess · State v. Fleenor“[W]e have been referred to no decision where [the Buie rationale] has been extended to include an entirely separate structure as the State urges here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hopkins
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.