Gill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably Heitman v. State (1991), Doyle v. State (1982)
2 federal appellate · 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 Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Chimel v. California
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he existence of probable cause to search the interior of an automobile is not necessarily sufficient to justify the search of the trunk.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““In short, the expression ‘inventory search,’ is not a talisman in whose presence the Fourth Amendment or Art. I, Sec. 9, of the Texas Constitution fades away and disappears, [citation omitted] “... In [the] context [of an inventory search], a seizure of items found in an unlocked trunk of an automobile is permissible .... “... Absent a showing of probable cause and exigent circumstances, a war-rantless search of a locked automobile trunk is per se illegal.” (emphasis supplied) Gill, supra at 318-319 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Osban v. State · Kelley v. State“(t)he finding of a small quantity of suspected contraband in the passenger compartment of an automobile does not alone amount to probable cause to search the trunk.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.