Zehrung v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Glass (1978), Stephan v. State (1985)
1 federal appellate · 30 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
Relies on Zehrung 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may well be that exigencies may arise warranting a more thorough search for contraband under unusual circumstances. It is impossible to rule on the myriad of conceivable circumstances. The rule set forth in our original opinion in Zehrung should normally be followed unless exigencies demand a different course of action. Whether circumstances justify a variance will depend on the particular facts involved and must be determined in an adversary proceeding on a case-by-case basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gray v. State“I wish to emphasize my strong belief that jail personnel are entitled to make an immediate and thorough search for weapons or any item that could be used as a weapon, whenever a prisoner is delivered into their custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. 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.