State v. David’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably 257 Ga. App. 794 - Pledger v. State (2002), 240 Ga. App. 243 - Benton v. State (1999)
37 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Horton v. California · Illinois v. Andreas · Tate v. State · Livingston 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appellate court must adopt the trial court's findings of fact unless they are clearly erroneous and not supported by any evidence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Even when an officer outside a home legally observes contraband in the house, it does not follow that the in-home seizure of the observed objects is lawful, for the plain view doctrine authorizes seizure of illegal or evidentiary items visible to a police officer only if the officer's access to the object itself has some prior Fourth Amendment justification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“only by obtaining a warrant, obtaining consent, or by the existence of exigent circumstances.”
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.