Pomerantz v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably 165 W. Va. 266 - State v. Stone (1980), 440 So. 2d 570 - Jones v. State (1983)
27 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Carroll v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a long line of cases, the Florida and federal courts have held that it is not a search for the police to discover evidence in plain sight. The warrantless seizure of such evidence is constitutionally permissible providing three requirements are met: (1) the police must observe the evidence in plain sight without the benefit of a search [i.e., without invading one's reasonable expectation of privacy], (2) the police must have a legal right to be where they are when they make the plain sight observation, and (3) the police must have probable cause to believe that the evidence seen constitutes contraband or fruits, instrumentalities or evidence of crime. [citations omitted].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“affords any protection against purely private searches and seizures no matter how unreasonable”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Armstrong v. State
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.