State v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Knowles v. Iowa (1998), State v. Smith (1994)
1 district · 23 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Alderman v. United States · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · Harris v. United States · United States v. Jeffers
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[fjurther intrusion on the passenger is not justified ... unless some articulable suspicion exists concerning a violation of law by that person or unless further interference with the passenger is required to facilitate a lawful arrest of another person or lawful search of the vehicle.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Knowles v. Iowa · State v. Smith“[A]bsent some articulable suspicion vis-a-vis the passenger, the Mimms rationale does not authorize removal of the passenger from the vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there was no articulable suspicion of wrongdoing on his part or any need to move him in order to facilitate [questioning] of the driver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bethea v. Com.
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.