State v. Van Dang’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably State v. Leyva (2011), State v. Neal (2007)
50 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 Rakas v. Illinois · Brown v. Texas · United States v. Smith · State v. Duran · State v. Hernandez
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“He estimated making an average of five drug trafficking arrests per year during that time, with up to eighty-five percent of those arrests involving rental cars. He testified that, in his experience, it was common to find rental cars being used to transport drugs, frequently where the actual renter of the vehicle was not present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Funderburg
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.