State v. VanHolten’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2025
9 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 · Wong Sun v. United States · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Schmerber v. State of California
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. James“"Because the [parties] in this case failed to argue this case under the Utah Constitution’s prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures, we confine our analysis to the protections granted under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.” State v. Northrup, 756 P.2d 1288 , 1290 n. 4 (Utah Ct.App.1988).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. James“'whether ... the evidence has been come at by exploitation of [the] illegality or by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Topanotes
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.