Givner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
6 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco (1967), Frank v. Maryland (1959)
6 district · 78 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 Boyd v. United States · Weeks v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Agnello 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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That all warrants, without oath or affirmation, to search suspected places, or to seize any person or property, are grevious [grievous] and oppressive; and all general warrants to search suspected places, or to apprehend suspected persons, without naming or describing the place, or the person in special, are illegal, and ought not to be granted.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. State · King v. State““The right of the people to be secure in' their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall[ 4 ] not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“decisions of the Supreme Court on the kindred 4th Amendment are entitled to great respect.”
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.