State v. Tackitt’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Fitzgerald v. State (2004), Commonwealth v. Feyenord (2005)
86 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 · United States v. Place · Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. · City of Indianapolis v. Edmond · Poland 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cotterell
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.