State v. Boone’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Cooke (1982), State v. Ahearn (1983)
116 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 · Preston v. United States · Cooper v. State of California · Hester v. United States · Mancusi v. DeForte
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A sentence within the statutory limit will be presumed regular and valid. However, such a presumption is not conclusive. If the record discloses that the court considered irrelevant and improper matter in determining the severity of the sentence, the presumption of regularity is overcome, and the sentence is in violation of defendant’s rights.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is clear that `capacity to claim the protection of the [Fourth] Amendment depends not upon a property right in the invaded place but upon whether the area was one in which there was a reasonable expectation of freedom from governmental intrusion....'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] defendant has the right to plead not guilty, and `he should not and cannot be punished for exercising that right.'”
2 later decisions 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.