Flippo v. West Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 242 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Brigham City v. Stuart (2006), Hudson v. Michigan (2006)
54 federal appellate · 119 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Katz v. United States · United States v. Matlock · Mincey v. Arizona · Michigan v. Tyler · Thompson v. Louisiana
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 242 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A warrantless search by the police is invalid unless it falls within one of the narrow and well-delineated exceptions to the warrant requirement[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Schroeder · RDS 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.