Sumlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Thomas v. State (1993), Duncan v. State (1987)
3 federal appellate · 58 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 Furman v. Georgia · South Dakota v. Opperman · Michigan v. Mosley · Patterson v. New York · United States v. Edwards
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A search of an individual’s personal effects is incidental to an arrest if it is conducted shortly thereafter at a jail. U.S. v. Edwards, 415 U.S. 800 , 94 S. Ct. 1234 , 39 L. Ed. 2d 771 (1974). See also, South Dakota v. Opperman, 428 U.S. 364 , 96 S. Ct. 3092 , 49 L. Ed. 2d 1000 (1976); Rules of Crim. Proc., Rule 12.2; and Johnson v. State, 252 Ark. 1113 , 482 S.W. 2d 600 (1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parris v. State
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.