State v. Buswell’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2025
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Carnegie v. United States · Sedillo v. United States · United States v. Jacobsen
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as an instrument or agent of the state when conducting the search, the search is subject to Fourth Amendment constraints.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dexter“made the search and seized the contraband does not always isolate his or her conduct from Fourth Amendment scrutiny.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dexter
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.