Strauss v. Stynchcombe’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Hance v. State (1980), Moore v. State (1978)
3 federal appellate · 47 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 Brinegar v. United States · Draper v. United States · Stanford v. Texas · Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property · 102 Ga. App. 790 - Curtis v. State
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is difficult to imagine that a case could arise where an officer executing a valid search warrant would not at some stage in the matter be required in the very nature of things to exercise his judgment as to what thing or things or person or persons were to be seized under the warrant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`There is ... a great "difference between what is required to prove guilt in a criminal case and what is required to show probable cause for arrest or search.”
2 later decisions 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.