State v. Acinelli’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2011
18 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Jencks v. United States · Delaware v. New York · Sanders Confectionery Products Inc. v. Heller Financial, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A reasonable person would have felt free to leave at that point. When [the] officer ... resumed a dialogue with the defendant, he asked permission to search the defendant’s car. The defendant agreed orally and in writing. The officer’s questions would not have led a reasonable person to conclude that he was compelled by physical force or authority of law to stay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Flores
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.