State v. Meichel’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 165 W. Va. 837 - State v. Moore (1980), State v. Jewell (1976)
32 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 · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Alderman v. United States · Sedillo v. United States · Harris 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * does not have the right to seize any object in his view in order to examine it and determine if it is or would be evidence in a criminal prosecution. An object in open plain view may be seized only where it is readily apparent that the object is contraband or evidence. * * *”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the plain view seizure of the pills established probable cause for a search of the automobile”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crews
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.