Espinoza v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Clay v. State (2012), Linares v. State (1996)
2 district · 37 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 Katz v. United States · Michigan v. Long · Oliver v. United States · United States v. Dunn · Vansant v. State
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that curtilage questions should be resolved with particular reference to four factors: the proximity of the area claimed to be curtilage to the home, whether the area is included within an enclosure surrounding the home, the nature of the uses to which the area is put, and the steps taken by the resident to protect the area from observation by people passing by.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[we] owe no deference to the trial court's conclusions of law. Instead, we are free to apply anew the legal principles to the facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Stephens v. State“the yards and grounds of a particular address, its gardens, barns, and buildings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Wiggins 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.