Sampson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2023
18 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 Washington v. Glucksberg · Cruzan Ex Rel. Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health · Vacco v. Quill · Baker v. City of Fairbanks · Ravin 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he right of the people to privacy is recognized and shall not be infringed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“show a legitimate interest and a close and substantial relationship between its interest and its chosen means of advancing that interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the rights to privacy and liberty are neither absolute nor comprehensive ... [and] their limits depend on a balance of interests.”
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.