202 N.J. Super. 416 - State v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2012
3 federal appellate · 14 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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Beck v. State of Ohio · United States v. Jacobsen
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The soles of a person's shoes ... are constantly exposed for public view, such as when we kneel to pray, when we lift our feet to walk or run, when we cross our legs or prop them up on a table or chair, when we remove our shoes and leave them lying idly on the floor, or as in this case, when we leave footprints in the mud or dirt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a] search implies some exploratory investigation and prying into hidden places for that which is concealed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an invasion, a quest with some sort of force, either actual or constructive.”
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.