State v. Ruffino’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably State v. Chamberlain (1991), State v. Duffy (1998)
2 federal appellate · 117 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 South Dakota v. Opperman · Cady v. Dombrowski · Preston v. United States · Cooper v. State of California · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“some nexus between the arrest and the reason for the impounding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boswell · State v. Byrom“To forbid entry into trunks as part of an inventory search would frustrate the very purpose of the inventory, since the trunk is a likely place for valuables to be stored.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Byrom“That the prosecutor can refer to the defendant's failure to testify if the door is opened by the defense, is well supported by case law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Storey
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.