State v. Ochoa’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably State v. Leyva (2011), State v. Funderburg (2008)
2 district · 52 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 State v. Gomez · State v. Vandenberg · United States v. Barnes · State v. Cobbs · State v. Bedolla
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Objects commonly associated with particular criminal activities can reasonably give rise to inferences that are distinct from objects ordinarily used for benign, non-criminal purposes. An officer's experience and training, considered within the context of the incident, may permit the officer to identify drug paraphernalia or drug packaging with a reasonable level of probability, sufficient for probable cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“According to our Supreme Court, [ujnder the plain view exception to the warrant requirement, items may be seized without a warrant if the police officer was lawfully positioned when the evidence was observed, and the incriminating nature of the evidence was immediately apparent, such that the officer had probable cause to believe that the article seized was evidence of a crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moran · State v. Lopez“right to frisk is automatic when [a] suspect has been stopped on the suspicion of committing or preparing to commit an inherently dangerous crime, like burglary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. N.W. v. State · NW 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.