Commonwealth v. Hatcher’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
3
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · United States v. Matlock · Sedillo v. United States · 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the law enforcement officer must not have violated the Fourteenth Amendment [ 6 ] in arriving at the place where the evidence could be plainly viewed. Second, not only must the officer be lawfully located in a place from which the object can be plainly seen, but he or she must have a lawful right of access to the object itself. Finally, the object’s incriminating character must also be immediately apparent.”
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.