State v. Littlefield’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
3
states following
June 1978
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Jones v. United States · Draper v. United States · Henry v. United States · Preston 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The search of the automobile was not an invasion of Sinclair’s constitutional immunity to unreasonable search or seizure as he was not the owner nor in possession of the automobile. . . .” (p. 420.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Edwards
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.