State v. Curtis’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably United States v. Robinson (1973), 7 Cal. 3d 186 - People v. Superior Court (1972)
4 federal appellate · 31 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 Terry v. Ohio · Mapp v. Ohio · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Preston v. United States · Knapp 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are not to be understood as holding that the police have no right, for their own protection, to search a person before placing him in a squad car if there is a valid reason for requiring him to enter the vehicle and it is not merely an excuse for an otherwise improper search.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“against `routine searches' arising out of ordinary traffic violations”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]his was a routine arrest for a trivial traffic offense and nothing more [and][u]nder such circumstances, the weight of authority holds that a search of the driver's person is unlawful and violates [the Fourth Amendment].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Varnado
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.