179 N.J. Super. 1 - State v. Farinich’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably State v. Hempele (1990), State v. Tucker (1994)
36 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 Terry v. Ohio · Johnson v. Zerbst · United States v. Chadwick · Henry v. United States · United States v. Di Re
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant `abandons' property when he voluntarily discards, leaves behind or otherwise relinquishes his interest in the property in question so that he can no longer retain a reasonable expectation of privacy to it at the time of the search.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... but even in such case, evidence seized will not be suppressed if the suspect abandoned it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“proof that defendant knew he had a right to refuse the police permission to search the suitcase and that he had a legally protected right of privacy therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Farinich
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.