State v. Russo’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Reynolds (2003), State v. Ancona (2004)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 58 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 880 (§ 510 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Roe v. Wade · Griswold v. State of Connecticut
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In other words, a person does not have an objectively reasonable expectation that records of his or her prescriptions for controlled substances will not be disclosed to law enforcement personnel, subject to safeguards against further dissemination of those records, upon an appropriate request for those records by such personnel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murphy v. State
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.