Mills v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably State v. Couture (1984), Commonwealth v. Cinelli (1983)
51 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Michigan v. Mosley · Consolidated Edison Co. of New York v. United States
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[T]his court and others, albeit usually without discussion, have upheld searches although the nexus between the items to be seized and the place to be searched rested not on direct observation, as in the normal search-and-seizure case, but on the type of crime, the nature of the missing items, the extent of the suspect's opportunity for concealment, and normal inferences as to where a criminal would be likely to hide stolen property.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ward · State v. Johnson“Although in a particular case it may not be easy to determine when an affidavit demonstrates ... probable cause, the resolution of doubtful or marginal cases in this area should be largely determined by the preference to be accorded to warrants.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mills' home was a probable place for secreting objects such as a hunting knife and a sheath.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ward · State v. Johnson
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.