State v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Cook (1992), United States v. Smith (1996)
5 federal appellate · 120 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Schmerber v. State of California · United States v. Ventresca · Gerstein v. Pugh · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s a general rule, an officer may not make a warrantless arrest for a misdemeanor unless the offense is committed in the officer's presence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“where the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect was operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The nonverbal results of appellee's breathalyzer and field sobriety tests are not self-incriminating statements * * * and are not rendered inadmissible by the Miranda violations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.