State v. DeFusco’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district · 130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Sivri (1994), State v. James (1996)
2 district · 130 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Illinois v. Gates · Katz v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Wolf v. People of the State of Colorado · California v. Ciraolo
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have repeatedly held, therefore, that a reviewing court must uphold `the validity of [the] warrant' . . .[if] the affidavit at issue presented a substantial factual basis [including the inferences reasonably drawn from the affidavit] for the magistrate's conclusion that probable cause existed. . . . State v. DeFusco , 224 Conn. 627 , 642 , 620 A.2d 746 (1993); State v. Duntz , 223 Conn. 207 , 215 , 613 A.2d 224 (1992); State v. Rodriguez , supra 135; State v. Barton , 219 Conn. 527 , 544 , 594 A.2d 917 (1991). In a doubtful or marginal case. . .our constitutional preference for a judicial determination of probable cause leads us to afford deference to the magistrate's. . .conclusion that the affidavit established probable cause . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A person’s reasonable expectations as to a particular object cannot be compartmentalized so as to restrain the police from acting as others in society are permitted or suffered to act. ... A person either has an objectively reasonable expectation of privacy or does not; what is objectively reasonable cannot, logically, depend on the source of the intrusion on his or her privacy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Morris“A person's reasonable expectations as to a particular object cannot be compartmentalized so as to restrain the police from acting as others in society are permitted or suffered to act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Granville
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.