State v. Rigby’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 2025
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Franks v. Delaware · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a car is readily mobile and probable cause exists to believe it contains contraband, the Fourth Amendment thus permits police to search the vehicle without more.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“so long as there [is] probable cause for the search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.