State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably State v. Chatton (1984), State v. Leak (Slip Opinion) (2016)
89 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · South Dakota v. Opperman · Cady v. Dombrowski · Cooper v. State of California · Cass 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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the evidence does not demonstrate that the procedure involved is merely a pretext for an evidentiary search of the impounded vehicle.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Foster · State v. Foster“has consistently sustained police intrusions into automobiles impounded or otherwise in lawful police custody where the process is aimed at securing or protecting the car and its contents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“To satisfy the requirements of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, an inventory search of a lawfully impounded vehicle must be conducted in good faith and in accordance with reasonable standardized procedure(s) or established routine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Foster
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.