Robert Siebert and Pamela Siebert v. David Severino’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably 211 Ill. 2d 502 - People v. Pitman (2004), State v. Artic (2010)
1 district · 8 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mathews v. Eldridge · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · Zinermon v. Burch · United States v. Dunn
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But if a search occurs outside the home or the home’s curtilage — even if it is on private property — the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee applies only if the property owner has a legitimate expectation of privacy in the area. This is because the Supreme Court has rejected a property-line approach to the Fourth Amendment, concluding instead that the government may enter a person’s private property (outside of the curtilage) and conduct a warrantless search, unless that individual has a legitimate expectation of privacy in the property searched.” Siebert, 256 F.3d at 654 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Juliano · State v. Artic“is so obvious that a reasonable state actor would know that what they are doing violates the Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This case seems to fit within the “obvious” scenario — a reasonable state actor would know that he cannot enter a fenced-in, closed structure located within 60 feet of a person’s house without a warrant or some exception to the warrant requirement. But even if not reasonably obvious to Severino, a closely analogous case indicates that his conduct was unconstitutional: his search took place in 1996, and less than three years earlier the Fourth Circuit held that citizens enjoy an expectation of privacy in their barn. Therefore, Severino is not protected by qualified immunity.”
1 later decision 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.