State v. Small’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Barfield (1979), State v. Arrington (1984)
72 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 · Kennedy v. Powell · Simuel v. United States · First National Bank in Plant City v. Dickinson · Stassen for President Citizens Committee v. Jordan
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen evidence is delivered to a police officer upon request and without compulsion or coercion, the constitutional provisions prohibiting unreasonable search and seizure are not violated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fullwood“do not constitute a persuasive showing that defendant's will was overborne by these acts of the police officers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rook
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.