Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Bowling v. State (2009), 302 Ga. App. 128 - Smith v. State (2010)
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Barker v. Wingo · Stoner v. California · Minnesota, v. Wayne Thomas Carter · In re Draffin
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment [against unreasonable search and seizure], a defendant must demonstrate that he personally has an expectation of privacy in the place searched, and that his expectation is reasonable . ...” A person has a legitimate expectation of privacy in his or her home and may have a legitimate expectation of privacy in a house in which the person is an overnight guest; however, “one who is merely present with the consent of the householder may not [claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wiggins v. State · Brown v. State“In order to claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure, a defendant must demonstrate that he personally has an expectation of privacy in the place searched, and that his expectation is reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.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.