Howard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Texas v. Brown (1983), Leday v. State (1998)
32 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · Delaware v. Prouse · Sedillo 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot be squared with the Supreme Court's interpretation of the plain view doctrine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Texas v. Brown“plain view alone is never enough to justify the warrantless seizure of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Texas v. Brown“[f]ollowing the teachings of Coolidge v. New Hampshire.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Texas v. Brown
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.