State v. Vargas’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. United States · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Mincey v. Arizona · South Dakota v. Opperman · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if police officers 'possess an objectively reasonable basis to believe' that prompt action is needed to meet an imminent danger, then neither the Fourth Amendment nor Article I, Paragraph 7 demand that the officers 'delay potential lifesaving measures while critical and precious time is expended obtaining a warrant.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“derived from the commonsense understanding that exigent circumstances may require ... police ... to enter a dwelling without a warrant for the purpose of protecting or preserving life, or preventing serious injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Fede“[w]ithout the presence of consent or some species of exigent circumstances, the community-caretaking doctrine is not a basis for the warrantless entry into and search of a home.”
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.