State v. Witherspoon’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2011 · most notably Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973), State v. Wiley (1975)
51 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 State v. Foster · State v. Green · State v. Gailes · Hamilton v. State of North Carolina · Gendron 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there would be anything in the trunk they would care if I looked at?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burkhardt
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.