State v. Desmond’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2010
14 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 Schmerber v. State of California · United States v. Cortez · Rochin v. People of California · Cryts v. French · Logiudice v. Georgia
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By observing the defendant place a plastic packet in his mouth (while turning to walk back in the direction from which he had just walked) upon seeing the officers, and based upon his experience as a narcotics officer, Ducet had reasonable suspicion that the defendant was attempting to swallow contraband and therefore had a reasonable basis for an investigatory stop.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. Id. at 966 . The officer yelled obscenities at the defendant, grabbed him by the throat to prevent him from swallowing and yelled”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.