361 So. 2d 822 - Rickard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
September 1982
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · 245 So. 2d 225 - State v. Ashby · 15 Md. App. 584 - Brown v. State · Giacona v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“Where contraband is seen in plain view by police in the defendant's back yard from a point adjacent to the property, may the police seize the contraband without a warrant in the absence of exigent circumstances?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rickard“[W]e have serious reservations about the proposition that a person has an expectation of privacy in contraband in plain view in a backyard protected only by a chain link fence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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