Black v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
33
cited by 33 later decisions
1
states following
May 1995
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. Illinois · South Dakota v. Opperman · United States v. Lefkowitz · Amador-Gonzalez v. United States · Bell v. State
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The facts show that the officers did not try to get a warrant, but simply used the traffic violation as a pretext to get around the warrant requirement. Appellant’s detention was, therefore, illegal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gordon v. State
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.