State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably 340 So. 2d 157 - State v. Jenkins (1976), 340 So. 2d 180 - State v. Lee (1976)
36 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 · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · Furman v. Georgia · Sedillo 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A search of the person of one arrested for a crime may be made at the time of the arrest, and also of immediately adjacent space within his immediate control, in order to remove any weapons as well as to secure any evidence of the crime within his immediate possession. Such a search incident to an arrest is a recognized exception to the requirement for a search warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cambrice
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.