State v. Rinehart’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2022
24 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Cady v. Dombrowski · 20 Va. App. 285 - Commonwealth v. Waters · 260 N.J. Super. 75 - State v. Martinez · 209 N.J. Super. 362 - State v. Goetaski · 325 N.J. Super. 521 - State v. Garbin
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the community caretaking exception should be cautiously and narrowly applied in order to minimize the risk that it will be abused or used as a pretext for conducting an investigatory search for criminal evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Short Bull“a medical emergency or an automotive malfunction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Short Bull
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.