State v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2014
21 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 Weeks v. United States · Frazier v. Cupp · People v. Carter · In re Lessard · State v. Kinderman
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Fourth Amendment to the constitution of the United States interdicts only those searches and seizures which are unreasonable and a wife's voluntary consent to a search of her and her husband's mutual residence is sufficient to constitutionally permit an otherwise reasonable search of the common areas thereof. [Emphasis added]."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the scope of spousal consent should be limited to a search of areas of the abode under common control, as distinguished from a search directed toward the personal effects of the absent spouse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.