State v. Mountford’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Brigham City v. Stuart (2006), State v. Ryon (2005)
25 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 Whren v. United States · Mincey v. Arizona · South Dakota v. Opperman · Cady v. Dombrowski · Colorado v. Bertine
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the police have objectively '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'; (2) there is an objectively 'reasonable basis, approximating probable cause, to associate the emergency with the area or place to be searched’; and (3) the search is not 'primarily motivated by intent to arrest and seize evidence.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Licari · State v. Deneui“[O]nly an undiscerning reader would regard these [inventory and administrative search] cases as endorsing the principle that ulterior motives can invalidate police conduct that is justifiable on the basis of probable cause to believe that a violation of law has occurred. In each case we were addressing the validity of a search conducted in the absence of probable cause. Our quoted statements simply explain that the exemption from the need for probable cause (and warrant), which is accorded to searches made for the purpose of inventory or administrative regulation, is not accorded to searches that are not made for those purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ryon“The business of policemen and firemen is to act, not to speculate or meditate on whether the report is correct. People could well die in emergencies if police tried to act with the calm deliberation associated with the judicial process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ford
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.