State v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 1987
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Anderson · State v. Rankin · State v. Hall · State v. Jackson · State v. Berry
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the articles sought to be suppressed were in plain sight of the arresting officer, were dropped or thrown away by the person arrested, and were picked up by the officers, the articles are admissible in evidence over an objection that they were seized as the result of an unlawful search.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moton
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.