State v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Commonwealth v. White (1995), State v. Vance (1991)
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 Chimel v. California · New York v. Belton · Linkletter v. Walker · United States v. Chadwick · Arkansas v. Sanders
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a police officer has effected a lawful custodial arrest of an occupant of a vehicle, the officer may, as a contemporaneous incident of that arrest, conduct a search of the passenger compartment of the vehicle extending to the contents of containers found within the passenger compartment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Decisions are presumed to operate retroactively, and overruling decisions are given solely prospective application only when there is compelling reason to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vance
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.