State v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2012
20 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 McMillan v. Pennsylvania · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. United States · Marino v. Ortiz · National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Federal Power Commission
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is conducted when the officer believes such a search is necessary in the performance of his duties, and must be reasonable in light of the total atmosphere in which it takes place. In determining the reasonableness of a warrantless search, we [a reviewing court] must `consider (1) the scope of the particular intrusion, (2) the manner in which it was conducted, (3) the justification for initiating it, and (4) the place in which it was conducted.' [Citing State v. Malone, 403 So.2d 1234, 1239 (La. 1981).]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the offender was persistently involved in similar offenses not already considered as criminal history or as part of a multiple offender adjudication,”
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.