State v. Ruscoe’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 district · 124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably State v. Barton (1991), Mulligan v. Rioux (1994)
4 district · 124 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Illinois v. Gates · Franks v. Delaware · Aguilar v. Texas · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable specificity, but need not be elaborately detailed. . . . Nor must the warrant enable authorities to minutely identify every item for which they are searching. . . . Thus, a description is valid if it is as specific as the circumstances and the nature of the activity under investigation permit.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he theory of corroboration is that a statement [that] has been shown true in some respects is reasonably likely to be true in the remaining respects”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holley
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.