State v. Flynn’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2017
11 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 United States v. Jacobsen · Oliver v. United States · Burdeau v. McDowell · Hester v. United States · Walter v. United States
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The correct test of legitimacy is not whether the individual has chosen to conceal some private activity but “whether the government’s intrusion infringes upon the personal and societal values protected by the Fourth Amendment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Fourth Amendment protects only against the government's intrusion upon a person's legitimate expectation of privacy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sullivan“the asserted expectation of privacy in open fields is not an expectation that `society' recognizes as reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sullivan
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.