2006 UT App 291 - State v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2021
7 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 Carroll v. United States · United States v. Ross · Texas v. Brown · Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada Humboldt County et al. · Maryland v. Dyson
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a car is readily mobile and probable cause exists to believe it contains contraband, the Fourth Amendment ... permits police to search the vehicle without more.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'it does not demand any showing that such a belief be correct or more likely true than false,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The presence of commonplace items that would not arouse suspicion in a lay person may support probable cause for a law enforcement officer when, in light of the circumstances and based on his experience and training, the items reasonably indicate a relation to illegal activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. NIMER
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.