Sears v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2024
8 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3109 · 21 U.S.C. § 879 (§ 509 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miller v. United States · Sabbath v. United States · Keiningham v. United States · 97 Okla. Crim. 215 - Kelso v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Officers may break open an outer or inner door . . ., to execute the warrant, if, after notice of his authority and purpose he [is] refused admittance.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Erickson v. State · Davis v. State“[T]he officers forcibly entered the defendant's apartment without first announcing their identity and purpose and requesting permission to enter. Such action is contrary to the provisions of the law of Oklahoma as set forth by the Legislature in 22 O.S. 1971 § 1228[,] and defendant's Motion to Suppress should have been granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brumfield v. State“Before an officer to whom a search warrant is directed is authorized to forcibly enter a house to execute a warrant, he should inform the inhabitant of his authority and he may not forcibly enter the house until he is denied admittance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brumfield v. State
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.