State v. Donis’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably United States v. Ellison (2006), State v. Segars (2002)
2 federal appellate · 37 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2721 (§ 300002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 2723 (§ 300002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994)
Relies on Katz v. United States · Whren v. United States · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · New York v. Class
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] mobile data terminal (MDT) consists of a screen and keypad that are linked to the computerized databases of the New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles .... Information may be retrieved through the MDT by entering a license plate number. When an officer enters a vehicle's license plate number, the initial "DMV plate" screen shows the expiration date of the registration for that vehicle; the status of the vehicle, including whether it has been reported stolen; the registrant's name, address, date of birth, and driver's license number; the year, make, model, license plate number, and color of the vehicle; the vehicle identification number; the number of owners of the registered vehicle; the maximum number of passengers * for a passenger vehicle; the gross weight for a commercial vehicle; and the length of the registered vehicle if it is a boat. When an officer accesses a DMV plate screen, the MDT then automatically runs a search of the registrant's name and displays the results on the "DMV name" screen. The DMV name screen shows the registrant's name and the number of names that match that search name; the registrant's driver's license number and date of birth; a code for the registrant's eye color; a code for whether the license or registration is suspended; whether the license is a photo or non-photo license; the licensee's address, social security number, date of birth, weight, and height; the term of the license; the license expiration date; the number of points accrued a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Terry“What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there are no claims [in this case] that the police targeted or stopped petitioners' cars based on impermissible motives,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Segars
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.