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State v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
3
states following
July 2022
most recently cited

45 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably State v. Baker (2010), State of Iowa v. Randall Lee Pals (2011)

45 state decisions

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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 Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Florida v. Royer · Nix v. Williams · Pennsylvania v. Mimms

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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “consistently held that Article 11 provides greater protections than its federal analog, the Fourth Amendment”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “While it may be that the sniff would have gone forward at some future time even if defendant had been allowed to leave the scene, we simply have no idea — and neither did the trial court — what might actually have happened had defendant gone on his way before the dog arrived.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “[A]ny expansion of the stop into a drug investigation require[s] a reasonable, articulable, suspicion that defendant was committing a drug-related crime.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.