Comer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably McDuff v. State (1997), Brimage v. State (1996)
51 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 Adams v. Williams · Olmstead v. United States · United States v. Jeffers · United States v. Colbert · Johnson 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Abandonment cannot be voluntary if it has been coerced by unlawful police action such as approaching a suspect with the intention to arrest without probable cause or the initiation of an illegal investigatory stop or search. Therefore, when the police are illegally threatening to arrest and search a suspect, and the suspect attempts to divest himself of incriminating evidence that he reasonably believes will be inevitably discovered, his efforts do not constitute such an “abandonment” or voluntary exposure as would waive his constitutional right to later move for suppression of the evidence obtained.... [Citations omitted]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State“We find no meaningful constitutional distinction between the situation where, because of police unlawfulness, the police search an individual and find contraband and the situation where, because of police unlawfulness, the individual throws or drops an object to the ground and the police seize it. (emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Norman v. State“To make the determination of voluntary abandonment we must determine if appellant intended to abandon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martinez
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.