Pointon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
June 1999
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Murphy v. State · Johnson v. State · Porter 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the mere fact that a place has been searched is not evidence at trial since it does not tend to prove or disprove a material fact”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCoy 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.