Knowles v. Iowa’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
264 federal appellate · 74 district · 612 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,203 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Arizona v. Gant (2009), Illinois v. Caballes (2005)
264 federal appellate · 74 district · 612 state decisions — followed in 40 states
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 · Chimel v. California · Berkemer v. McCarty · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Weeks v. United States
Cited together with Terry v. Ohio · Whren v. United States · United States v. Robinson · New York v. Belton · Chimel v. California
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 1,203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the concern for destruction or loss of evidence”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“more analogous to a so-called ' Terry stop' ... than to a formal arrest.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not affect the officer's authority to conduct an otherwise lawful search.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.