State v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably David Weber/appellant v. Strippit Inc (1999), State v. Lopez (1994)
32 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Griffin v. California · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Powers v. Ohio
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, the Supreme Court has held "that if there is an objective legal basis for an arrest or search, the arrest or search is lawful even if the officer making the arrest or conducting the search based his or her action on the wrong ground or had an improper motive. See, e.g., Scott v. United States , 436 U.S. 128 , 98 S.Ct. 1717 , 56 L.Ed.2d 168 (1978). Illustrative cases of this court include State v. Rodewald , 376 N.W.2d 416 , 421 (Minn. 1985), and State v. Pleas , 329 N.W.2d 329 , 332 (Minn. 1983). As at least one commentator has noted, 'The United States Supreme Court has never struck down police activity as unconstitutional based on the subjective intentions of the officer in the particular case and is unlikely to do so in the near future.' Butterfoss, Solving the Pretext Puzzle , 79 Ky.L.J. 1, 58 (1990). On a case-by-case basis the Supreme Court declares only fabricated pretexts unlawful. 'Legal' pretexts — i.e., activities which can be legally justified if the actual reason for the conduct is put aside — consistently pass constitutional muster. Id. "”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“significant that the jury ultimately included a member of a minority”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Black
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.