State v. Buzzard’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Smith (2009), State v. Gardner (2012)
76 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 Katz v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · Boyd v. United States · Texas v. Brown · Horton v. California
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“police are free to observe whatever may be seen from a place where they are entitled to be.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“intimate activity associated with the `sanctity of a man's home and the privacies of life.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The Fourth Amendment protects the individual's actual and justifiable expectation of privacy from the ear and eye of the government. See, generally, Smith v. Maryland (1979), 442 U.S. 735,740-741 ; Katz v. United States (1967), *Page 6 389 U.S. 347 , 351 . If the state wishes to intrude on the individual's right to be secure in his person, house, paper, and effects by searching or seizing him or his things, the state must first secure a warrant. Section 14 , Article I , Ohio Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.