State v. Childs’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
5
states following
July 1988
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Ker v. State of California · Harris v. United States · Rea v. United States · United States v. Edwards
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.
““There is, of course, no search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment where the objects are within the plain view of a police officer who has the right to be in the position to view the objects and it cannot be an unreasonable search if the officer observes whatever is in plain sight. Ker v. California, 374 U.S. 23 , 83 S.Ct. 1623 , 10 L.Ed.2d 726 (1963). * * * ” State v. Childs, 110 Ariz. 389, 391 , 519 P.2d 854, 856 (1974). We find no error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Valencia
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.