State v. Rabon’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Nadeau (2010), Commonwealth v. Long (2009)
24 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 Illinois v. Gates · Franks v. Delaware · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Spinelli v. United States
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated....” U.S. Const. amend IV. The Maine Constitution similarly provides:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson“The exigent circumstances justification for warrantless searches applies when there is a compelling need to conduct a search and insufficient time in which to secure a warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martin“The United States and Maine Constitutions guarantee the right to be secure in one's home from unreasonable searches and seizures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Marquis
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.