State v. Camara’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 104 Wis. 2d 247 - State v. Drogsvold (1981), 104 Wis. 2d 678 - State v. Vick (1981)
30 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Draper v. United States · Ker v. State of 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Generally in construing statutes, “may” is construed as permissive and “shall” is construed as mandatory unless a different construction is demanded by the statute in order to carry out the clear intent of the legislature.’ ” State v. Camara (1965), 28 Wis. 2d 365, 371 , 137 N. W. 2d 1 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . For a search incidental to an arrest to be legal the arrest itself must be legal, and for the arrest to be legal probable cause for the arrest must exist.””
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.