Zehrung v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Glass (1978), Stephan v. State (1985)
1 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 10 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. Robinson · South Dakota v. Opperman · Gustafson v. Florida · 7 Cal. 3d 186 - People v. Superior Court
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“get in touch with a relative, an employer, a friend, or an attorney, who could come to the station-house”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Zehrung v. State · Gray v. State“Searches and Seizures. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses and other property, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. No warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Myers · Guidry v. State“[Wjhen one is arrested and brought to a jail for a minor offense for which bail has already been set in a bail schedule, he should be allowed a reasonable opportunity to attempt to raise bail before being subjected to the remand and book ing procedures and the incident inventory search.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Zehrung v. State · Gray 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.