15 Md. App. 584 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 24 Md. App. 128 - Andresen v. State (1975), 19 Md. App. 507 - Stanley v. State (1974)
77 state decisions — followed in 14 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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In giving voice to the Frankfurter rationale, Coolidge stated, ‘The ‘plain view’ doctrine would normally justify as well the seizure of other evidence that came to light during such an appropriately limited search. . . . Where, however, the arresting officer inadvertently comes within plain view of a piece of evidence, not concealed, although outside of the area under the immediate control of the arrestee, the officer may seize it, so long as the plain view was obtained in the course of an appropriately limited search of the arrestee.’"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not contemplate the non-intrusion visual observation, such as where evidence is in 'open view' and therefore seizable in a 'constitutionally non-protected area'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has already validly surmounted the intrusion hurdle.”
2 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.