State v. James’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably State v. Brake (2004), State v. Geukgeuzian (2004)
26 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 Katz v. United States · Florida v. Royer · Whren v. United States · Chambers v. Maroney · Delaware v. Prouse
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although police must have a warrant to conduct most searches and seizures, 'officers may temporarily detain a vehicle and its occupants upon reasonable suspicion of criminal activity for the purpose of conducting a limited investigation of the suspicion.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Baker · State v. Stewart“Causing the door to be opened in some manner was a reasonable and practical means for obtaining compliance with [the officer’s] authority to lawfully require [the defendant] to step from the vehicle. As such, the opening of the door was an incidental factor in the investigation ... and not an independent search of the vehicle. To draw distinctions as to who actually opened the door and the nature of any conversation or notification occurring beforehand would elevate form over substance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Malloy · State v. Irwin“'automobile excep tion' to the warrant rule arises because occupants of a vehicle have a lesser expectation of privacy 'due to the mobile nature of vehicles and their highly regulated status,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.