State v. Hempele’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 district · 231 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 239 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Marshall (1991), 115 Wash. 2d 571 - State v. Boland (1990)
4 district · 231 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1705 · 39 U.S.C. § 3001 (Deceptive Mail Prevention and Enforcement Act)
Relies on Katz v. United States · United States v. Matlock · United States v. Ross · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Mincey v. Arizona
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 239 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with the Supreme Court when we find that it has provided our citizens with”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]xpectations of privacy are established by general social norms,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`affords our citizens greater protection against unreasonable searches and seizures than does the fourth amendment.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.