Duffield v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 1988
18 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Snyder v. Commonwealth · Robbins v. MacKenzie
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.
““Before the reasonableness or legality of an alleged search may be questioned it is necessary to first determine whether there has actually been a search. ‘A search ordinarily implies a quest by an officer of the law, a prying into hidden places for that which is concealed.’ State v. Coolidge, 106 N.H. 186, 191 , 208 A. 2d 322, 326 . It implies ‘some exploratory investigation, or an invasion and quest, a looking for or seeking out. * * * [I] t is generally held that the mere looking at that which is open to view is not a ‘search.’ ” 79 C.J.S., Searches and Seizures § 1, pp. 775, 776. “Here, there was no evidence that Detective Asaro and Cherry obtained entry into Duffield’s home by intimidation or trickery. On the contrary they properly identified themselves to Mrs. Duffield as police officers and informed her that they wanted to ask Duffield ‘a few questions about what happened last night.’ The officers were invited into the house to await Duffield’s arrival. As was said in Robbins v. MacKenzie, 1 Cir., 364 F. 2d 45, 49 , ‘We do not think that after a householder, who has been fully and honestly informed of the objectives of the police, makes a responsive gesture of invitation, the courts must engage in a psychological or physiological inquiry into whether the invitation was really meant.’ While inside, Mrs. Duffield was merely asked if she knew what clothing her husband had worn the previous day. She was not requested to secure them. However, she voluntarily left the room a”
3 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.