State v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Connecticut Building Wrecking Co. v. Carothers (1991), State v. Indrisano (1994)
107 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 · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · United States v. Mendenhall · Schmerber v. State of California
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fourth amendment to the federal constitution, made applicable to the states through the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment, provides in relevant part that [t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A party attacking the constitutionality of a validly enacted statute bears the heavy burden of proving its unconstitutionality beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Panek“The touchstone of due process is protection of the individual against arbitrary action of government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.