Roaden v. Kentucky’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
275 federal appellate · 52 district · 382 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 926 later decisions (73 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union (1989), Zurcher v. Stanford Daily (1978)
275 federal appellate · 52 district · 382 state decisions — followed in 34 states
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 Carroll v. United States · Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · 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 926 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there are exigent circumstances in which police action literally must be `now or never' to preserve the evidence of the crime, it is reasonable to permit action without prior judicial evaluation.”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage““* * * [W]here films are scheduled for exhibition in a commercial theater open to the public, procuring a warrant based on a prior judicial determination of probable cause of obscenity need not risk loss of the evidence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.