State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2019
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.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the privacy interests that are protected by Article I, section 9, commonly are circumscribed by the space in which they exist and, more particularly, by the barriers to public entry (physical and sensory) that define that private space.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lien · State v. Mansor“must be read in light of the ever-expanding capacity of individuals and the government to gather information by technological means.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mansor“every possible form of invasion-physical, electronic, technological, and the like.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mansor
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.