State v. Mendoza’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably State v. Pena (1994), Ferris v. State (1999)
47 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 Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Leon · Mapp v. Ohio · United States v. Cortez · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough the density of the traffic . . . varies, travelers use the interstate highway[s] at all times of the day and night and at all times of the year.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the apparent 'Latin descent' of the occupants of the [car]; (2) the route of travel; (3) the time of day [(about 5:00 a.m.)]; (4) the time of year [(March)]; (5) the California license plates; (6) the erratic driving pattern; and (7) the nervous behavior of the occupants,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Washington“no outside authority on which the officers could reasonably rely expressly authorized the search ..., the policy foundations of the Leon exception do not appear in searches of [this kind].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson
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.