State v. Zelinske’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2016
23 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · United States v. Ross
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person's expectation of privacy as regards a container cannot be determined by the nature of the container.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Granville
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.