Sneed v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. Yeargan (1997), State v. Jacumin (1989)
1 federal appellate · 100 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 Mapp v. Ohio · United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Co. · American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Monts v. State · Fagundes 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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Constitutional rights are not violated when a law officer, without any trespass against [the] defendant, and while he is at a place where he [had] a right to be, looks and sees evidence against a defendant which is plainly visible.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McLennan · State v. Goad
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.