State v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 1994 · most notably State v. Wyatt (1984), State v. Rand (1981)
34 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 Katz v. United States · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Carroll v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Brinegar 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f State law has subjected property to search and seizure, by warrant, as fruits, or instrumentality or evidence of any crime ... so long as probable cause exists, the warrant may be constitutionally dispensed with if there are exigent circumstances which demand immediate search and seizure, or both, to prevent likelihood of removal, concealment, destruction or other loss of the articles lawfully subject to seizure provided, of course, that the search and seizure is limited as to method, place and time to be commensurate with such exigency.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harriman · State v. Patten““Prior to being constitutionally obliged by Mapp [Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 , 81 S.Ct. 1684 , 6 L.Ed.2d 1081 ] and Ker [Ker v. California, 374 U.S. 23 , 83 S.Ct. 1623 , 10 L.Ed.2d 726 ], supra, to follow an exclusionary rule for evidence acquired by Fourth Amendment violations, Maine had declined to provide such sanction”. See: State v. Schoppe, 113 Me. 10 , 92 A. 867 (1915).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Dubay.
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.