State v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “. . . [0]pen fields do not provide the setting for those intimate activities that the [Fourth] Amendment is intended to shelter from government interference or surveillance. There is no societal interest in protecting the privacy of those activities, such as the cultivation of crops, that occur in open fields. . . .[T]he asserted expectation of privacy in open fields is not an expectation that "society recognizes as reasonable."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Martwick

2. “[a] trial court must ... take into consideration the differences in custom and terrain within different areas of the state when contemplating particular expectations of privacy”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Albertson

3. “the curtilage of a home located within the city limits of Boise may not be the same as the curtilage of a ranch located in one of Idaho's rural counties.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Albertson