State v. Shoulderblade’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2017
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 Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · United States v. Leon · Mapp v. Ohio
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.
“'Under the doctrine of stare decisis, once a point of law is decided, that ruling should be followed by a court of ... a lower rank in subsequent cases confronting the same legal issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] brief time lapse between a Fourth Amendment violation and consent ... indicates exploitation because the effects of the misconduct have not had time to dissipate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“designed to ameliorate the 'friction between democratic principles and judicial authority' " (citation omitted)). Justice Himonas cites other considerations in support of his conclusion that avoidance is appropriate in this case. He asserts that avoidance "forges certainty, stability, and predictability in the law”
2 later decisions 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.