State v. Bridges’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably State v. Binette (2000), State v. Simpson (1998)
30 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 · United States v. Cortez · Texas v. Brown · State v. Trine · 165 Ill. 2d 211 - People v. Mitchell
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A] majority of this Court has determined that Officer Blackwell did not have probable cause to believe that the [pill bottle] he felt was contraband, and that he did not have probable cause to believe that the bottle contained contraband. In an affidavit filed as an exhibit to the suppression hearing Officer Blackwell described the patdown of the defendant as follows: "`For my protection I immediately identified myself and frisked Bridges for weapons. When I touched his right jacket pocket I immediately recognized a pill bottle, in that pocket, that is used by the majority of crack dealers to hold their crack cocaine.... The pill bottle contained crack cocaine. I charged him and also found a small bag of crack cocaine in the same pocket.' ". . . . " While Officer Blackwell said that he `immediately recognized' the item as a pill bottle, unless he was clairvoyant, he could not have discerned the contents from merely touching the container. Such a bottle, or one resembling it by touch, may enclose legal medication, candy, pins, film or any number of other small items. Officer Blackwell's testimony does not specify the objective basis upon which he relied for identification of the container itself or its possible contents as contraband. The record contains little evidence of Officer Blackwell's experience in drug cases and no evidence as to how he connected the container with the possession of cocaine.... "Under the proof in this record, it is evident that it was not ... appar”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ex Parte Warren
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.