State v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably State v. Wallace (1996), State v. Clark (1982)
30 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 · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · Preston 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] warrantless search of an automobile [is] proper where the police [have] probable cause to search at the time of the warrantless search and seizure, and they [have] reason to believe that because of the car’s mobility or exposure, there [is] a foreseeable risk that it [may] be moved or that the evidence which it contain[s may] be removed or destroyed before a warrant [can] be obtained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Phillips“... Of course, they (police) might have impounded the vehicle or posted guards around it (car) while they applied for a warrant, but for constitutional purposes there is “little to choose in terms of practical consequences between an immediate search without a warrant and the car’s immobilization until a warrant is obtained. ’ ’ (Citation omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bennett“An automobile search without a warrant . . . would not be constitutionally proscribed where the search is conducted as an incident to a proper arrest, or, assuming the existence of probable cause, where exigent circumstances are present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Saffery
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.