State v. Edmonds’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
4
states following
November 1988
most recently cited
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chambers v. Maroney · State v. Hefflin · Glisson v. United States · State v. Valstad · State v. Smith
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . The right to search [an automobile] and [the] validity of the seizure are not dependent upon the right to arrest but depend upon the existence of reasonable cause on the part of the seizing officer to believe that the contents of the automobile offend against the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morgan
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.