State v. Quintana’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 1996 · most notably State v. Donaldson (1983), State v. Kendall (1977)
2 district · 27 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 Stanford v. Texas · Dennis v. California · James v. United States · United States v. Fuller · State v. Madrid
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The words, ‘controlled substances . contrary to law’, used in the warrant have a definite meaning in that they refer to certain and definite lists of drugs and their derivatives. Nothing was left to the discretion of the Officers. They were commanded to seize any of the items on those lists present on the premises contrary to law, nothing else. Heroin is one of the drugs listed, and it was heroin that the officers seized.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“any and all controlled substances which may be kept there contrary to law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.