State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2016
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Mendenhall · Bumper v. North Carolina · 338 So. 2d 584 - State v. Crosby · 412 So. 2d 532 - State v. Coleman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he police may have slightly misstated their purpose, but the scope of the search was of no greater intensity than they represented they would make.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there was no reason for the police to believe that the consent to search the suitcase did not extend to the paper package inside.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any identification was as likely to be in the paper bag as anywhere else in the suitcase”
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.