Ricks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. White (1995), In Re Tariq A-R-Y (1997)
43 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 Terry v. Ohio · Chimel v. California · New York v. Belton · United States v. Robinson · United States v. Chadwick
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ricks does not contest the intermediate appellate court’s determination, which affirmed the trial court’s denial of the motion to suppress, that his arrest was supported by the requisite probable cause. Indeed, at oral argument before us, Ricks conceded that he was lawfully arrested, at least at the point when the dog scratched his bag, indicating that it contained narcotics.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When an arrest is made, it is reasonable for the arresting officer to search the person arrested in order to remove any weapons that the latter might seek to use in order to resist arrest or effect his escape. Otherwise, the officer’s safety might well be endangered, and the arrest itself frustrated. In addition, it is entirely reasonable for the arresting officer to search for and seize any evidence on the arrestee’s person in order to prevent its concealment or destruction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Fourth Amendment protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures. A warrantless search or seizure is per se unreasonable, unless the police can show that it falls within one of a carefully defined set of exceptions. Gamble v. State, 318 Md. 120, 123 , 567 A.2d 95 (1989); Stackhouse v. State, 298 Md. 203, 209 , 468 A.2d 333 (1983); Howell v. State, 271 Md. 378, 379 , 318 A.2d 189 (1974). A search incident to a valid arrest is one of the limited exceptions to the warrant requirement. Chimel v. California, supra [ 395 U.S. 752 , 89 S.Ct. 2034 , 23 L.Ed.2d 685 (1969) ]; Colvin v. State, 299 Md. 88, 98 , 472 A.2d 953 , cert. denied, 469 U.S. 873 [ 105 S.Ct. 226 , 83 L.Ed.2d 155 ] (1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benbow v. State
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.