State v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
3
states following
May 2017
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Mapp v. Ohio · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and possessions, from unreasonable searches and seizures; and that general warrants, whereby an officer may be commanded to search suspected places, without evidence of the fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, whose offences are not particularly described and supported by evidence, are dangerous to liberty and ought not to be granted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a location’s characteristics may be relevant to amassing reasonable suspicion”). 12 . For instance, in Adams , the Court held the frisk of the defendant to be supported by reasonable suspicion because the informant approached the officer face-to-face in order to inform him that the defendant had narcotics and a gun on his person; the officer knew the informant personally and had received accurate tips from him in the past; and the tip was “immediately verifiable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.