State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably State v. Seaman (2005), State v. a Blue in Color, 1993 Chevrolet Pickup (2005)
30 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 Rakas v. Illinois · United States v. Matlock · 8 Cal. 3d 884 - People v. Triggs · State v. Elison · State v. Tackitt
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““when the prosecution seeks to justify a warrantless search by proof of voluntary consent, it is not limited to proof that consent was given by the defendant, but may show that permission to search was obtained from a third party who possessed common authority over or other sufficient relationship to the premises or effects sought to be inspected.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ellis
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.