State v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably State v. Davis (1986), State v. Patino (1980)
3 federal appellate · 47 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 · Chimel v. California · Chambers v. Maroney · Henry v. United States · United States v. Mitchell
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Events which would go unnoticed by a layman ofttimes serve as an indication to the trained eye that something amiss might be taking place or is about to take place.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that pursuant to a valid arrest a police officer may search a defendant and the area within his reach to protect himself from attack, * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen the defendant failed to produce his driver's license and a registration certificate, the officers were empowered to arrest him. N.J.S.A. 39:5-25....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.