State v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably State v. Bullock (1995), Armstrong v. State (1999)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 65 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 State v. Sawyer · State v. Brecht · State v. Coburn · State v. Sykes · State v. Hyem
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the privacy section of the Montana Constitution contemplates privacy invasion by state action only.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Montana has rightfully placed privacy paramount to any illegal public or private intrusion. The constitutional delegates knew Montana when they wrote: “‘The right of individual privacy is essential to the well-being of a free society and shall not be infringed without the showing of a compelling state interest.’ Mont. Const, art. II, § 10. “This has been the law and should remain the law without exception or qualification. “It is no favor to judicial integrity to use an incident of an illegal intrusion as a substitute for due process. The majority of this Court now allows the trespasser and the snoop to do work properly assigned to lawfully constituted law enforcement. We should leave law enforcement to those legally and rightfully entrusted with that task. It is not an injustice to society to apply the exclusionary rule to private searches. . . . Law enforcement should be left to law enforcement officers who are not only trained to apprehend the wrongdoer but, just as importantly, to respect the rights of all Montana citizens including what was, before the majority opinion, the constitutional right to privacy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Christensen““[Unreasonable or illegal intrusions knowingly accepted and used, from the private sector by the government amount to an extension of the silver platter doctrine condemned by Elkins , particularly when viewed in the light of judicial integrity emphasized in Elkins” (Emphasis in original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Christensen
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.