Combs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Wofford v. State (1997), Snell v. State (1986)
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 Payton v. New York · Johnson v. United States · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · McDonald v. United States · Stoner v. 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An officer who has reasonable cause to believe that premises or a vehicle contain: (a) individuals in imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm . . . may, without a search warrant, enter and search such premises and vehicles, and the persons therein, to the extent reasonably necessary for the prevention of such death, bodily harm, or destruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Wofford v. State“[b]ut for the grace of God and the quick thinking of [Officer Howard] you might be considering today two counts of capital felony murder against this man.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Abraham 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.