State v. Tatum’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 842 So. 2d 330 - State v. Thompson (2003), Commonwealth v. Cast (1990)
124 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Carroll v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · United States v. Ross
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the car is movable, the occupants are alerted, and the car's contents may never be found again if a warrant must be obtained.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Scull · State v. Boudreaux“[e]very person shall be secure in his person, property, communications, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches, seizures, or invasions of privacy.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Doussan · State v. Charles“that police officers who have legitimately stopped an automobile and who have probable cause to believe that contraband is concealed somewhere within it, may conduct a warrantless search of the vehicle as thoroughly as a magistrate could authorize.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dillon · State v. Colvin
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.