State v. Ryon’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 district · 129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 222 Ill. 2d 530 - People v. Luedemann (2006), State v. Rowell (2008)
2 district · 129 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 · Katz v. United States · Payton v. New York · Whren v. United States · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the police must have reasonable grounds to believe that there is an emergency at hand and an immediate need for their assistance for the protection of life or property. Second, the search must not be primarily motivated by intent to arrest and seize evidence. Third, there must be some reasonable basis, approximating probable cause, to associate the emergency with the area or place to be searched.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Byrom · State v. Trudelle“is judged by a lower standard of reasonableness: a specific and articulable concern for public safety requiring the officer's general assistance”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Byrom · State v. Trudelle“Although our inquiry is necessarily fact-based it compels a careful balancing of constitutional values, which extends beyond fact-finding, to shape the parameters of police conduct by placing the constitutional requirement of reasonableness in factual context.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Storey · State v. Byrom
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.