Rawlings v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017
4 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 Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Simmons v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]learly, after Rawlings admitted ownership of the drugs, the officers were entitled to arrest and search the person, or search and then arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rawlings v. Kentucky“the sequence of the search of the purse and Rawlings' admission of ownership of the drugs is not clearly established in the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rawlings v. Kentucky“disregard[ed] as irrelevant the detention during the period in which the officers were procuring a search warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rawlings v. Kentucky
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.