State v. Christensen’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably State v. Ramirez (1991), State v. Larocco (1990)
1 district · 24 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 · Katz v. United States · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · United States v. Cortez
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In exigent cireumstances, the judgment of a police officer as to probable cause will serve as sufficient authorization for a search, Le., a search warrant is unnecessary where there is probable cause to search an automobile stopped on the highway, for the car is movable, ... and the car's contents may never be found again if a warrant must be obtained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Larocco · State v. Rigby“[f]or this exception to apply, the police must have probable cause to believe that the automobile contains either contraband or evidence of a crime and that they may be lost if not immediately seized.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Larocco · State v. Rigby“[w]arrantless searches and seizures are per se unreasonable unless exigent circumstances require action before a warrant can be obtained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Larocco · State v. Sims
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.