State v. Jenkins’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably Robbins v. California (1981), State v. Fields (1984)
36 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 · Chambers v. Maroney · United States v. Chadwick · Arkansas v. Sanders · Cardwell v. Lewis
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 37 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“The well-established rule in this jurisdiction is that warrantless searches are presumptively unreasonable unless they fall within one of the carefully defined exceptions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rosa.“A contemporaneous search incidental to a lawful arrest may be made for the fruits of the crime, implements used to commit the crime and for weapons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rosa.
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.