State v. Bridewell’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably 21 Cal. 4th 464 - People v. Ray (1999), 231 N.J. Super. 258 - State v. Scott (1989)
4 federal appellate · 21 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fall[s] within one of the few specifically established and carefully delineated exceptions to the warrant requirement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here is no generic "community caretaking function." Whether law enforcement officers have specific functions is a matter of statutory law. [emphasis added].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.