State v. Langer’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 1998
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Carroll v. United States · United States v. Ross · New York v. Belton · South Dakota v. Opperman · United States v. Johns
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if probable cause justifies the search of a lawfully stopped automobile, it justifies a search of every part of the automobile and its contents that may conceal the object of the search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jarrett
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.