State v. Sykes’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably State v. Dearborn (2010), State v. Arias (2008)
1 federal appellate · 64 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 Chimel v. California · Whren v. United States · United States v. Robinson · Rawlings v. Kentucky · Devenpeck v. Alford
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is against the great weight and clear preponderance of the evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 11 of the Wisconsin Constitution protect '[[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“unwilling to entertain Fourth Amendment challenges based on the actual motivations of individual officers.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kramer · State v. Johnson
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.