State v. DiStefano’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2021
17 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 Schmerber v. State of California · Rochin v. People of California · Accent Store Design, Inc. v. Marathon House, Inc. · State v. Jenkins · Kastal v. Hickory House, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Grounds for issuance. A warrant may be issued under this chapter to search for and seize any property: (1) Stolen or embezzled, or obtained by any false pretense, or pretenses, with intent to cheat or defraud within this state, or elsewhere; (2) Kept, suffered to be kept, concealed, deposited, or possessed in violation of law, or for the purpose of violating the law; (3) Designed or intended for use, or which is or has been used, in violation of law, or as a means of committing a violation of law; or (4) Which is evidence of the commission of a crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dearmas“the meaning of questionable or doubtful words or phrases in a statute may be ascertained by reference to the meaning of other words or phrases associated with it”) (quoting Black’s Law Dictionary 1060 (6th ed.1990)); see also Jones v. United States, 527 U.S. 373, 389 , 119 S.Ct. 2090 , 144 L.Ed.2d 370 (1999) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The justices of the supreme and superior court shall, by virtue of their office, be severally conservators of the peace throughout the state, and shall severally have the same power in criminal cases throughout the state that district courts have in their respective districts."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dearmas
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.