State v. Riley’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2018
11 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 Terry v. Ohio · Michigan v. Long · United States v. Nash · State v. Aschenbrenner · 235 N.J. Super. 232 - State v. Carter
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“articulable suspicions or need to arrest the driver or make a search”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“searched only under the front seat, where he suspected a weapon may be: he limited his search to “what was minimally necessary to learn whether [the suspect was] armed_” Furthermore, by removing [the defendant] from the car and immediately reaching only under the front seat, “[i]t is clear that the intrusion was strictly circumscribed by the exigencies which justified] its initiation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bergmann
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.