Fair v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Brown v. State (1995), Bieghler v. State (1997)
75 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 Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Mincey v. Arizona · South Dakota v. Opperman · 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the belief that the vehicle posed some threat or harm to the community or was itself imperiled was consistent with objective standards of sound policing,”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In borderline cases, however, the ultimate character of the search is often most clearly revealed when both the necessitousness of the impoundment and the serupulousness of the inventorying are viewed together.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State · George v. State“police are expected not only to enforce the criminal laws but also to aid those in distress, abate hazards, prevent potential hazards from materializing, and perform an infinite variety of other tasks calculated to enhance and maintain the safety of communities”
2 later decisions 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.