State v. Ercolano’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably State v. Bruzzese (1983), State v. Alston (1981)
85 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Carroll v. United States
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There can be no doubt as to the current authoritativeness of that concept.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the principle that the intent and purpose of the searching officers may be material, indeed crucial, to the validity of the search, is fully applicable here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he intent and purpose of the police in conducting a search has frequently been held material to the validity thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.