Handley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1990
8 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 United States v. Lefkowitz · Puckett v. State · Farnsworth v. State · Handley v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However, the doctrine that the constitutional guaranty does not prohibit search and seizure as an incident to a lawful arrest may not be used as a pretext to search for evidence nor does it justify a general exploratory search of the premises.” 430 P.2d, at 831 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lawson v. State““Law enforcement officers are paid by the month, and could save the State thousands of dollars in useless prosecutions, if they would only stop by the courthouse (or wherever the magistrate should be located) and secure a search warrant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thigpen v. State““Evidence discovered by an officer when he is in a place where he has a legal right to be is admissible to support a charge where such evidence would be involved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stone 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.