Law v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2002
17 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 Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Chimel v. California · Myre v. State · Marsh v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Further, if there is probable cause that a motor vehicle contains contraband or the instrumentalities of a crime as there was here, a valid search is not limited to Chimel’s, supra [Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752 , 89 S.Ct. 2034 , 23 L.Ed.2d 685 (1969)], ‘area of immediate control’ scope, but embraces the mobile vehicle itself, regardless of the distance of the accused from the vehicle. The factual situation confronting the officers in the instant case established that exigent circumstances existed requiring the officers to proceed to arrest appellant and search the car for weapons without waiting for a warrant. Carroll v. U. S., 267 U.S. 132 , 45 S.Ct. 280 , 69 L.Ed. 543 ; Brinegar v. U. S., 338 U.S. 160 , 69 S.Ct. 1302 , 93 L.Ed. 1879 ; Hooper v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 516 S.W.2d 941 ; Borner v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 521 S.W.2d 852 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker 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.