State v. Hite’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
6 state decisions
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requirement that officers open every closed container that is designed or objectively likely to contain valuables serves as the constitutionally necessary constraint on the exercise of individual officers' discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“requires officers to open and inventory closed containers that are not designed to contain or objectively likely to contain valuables or even dangerous items.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In serving the purposes of the inventory, the authorizing policy must not permit police to indiscriminately rummage through closed containers.”
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.