State v. Fredette’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably State v. Hunt (1982), 494 So. 2d 750 - Bradley v. State (1985)
30 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Mapp v. Ohio · United States v. Calandra · Bumper v. North Carolina · McNabb 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A consent search is a limited and conditional search only insofar as the consenting party has expressly stated, or, under the reasonable man standard in the light of all the existing circumstances, is deemed in fact to have impliedly attached, certain limitations under which the officers are authorized by him to search. The character of the search is determined by the scope of the authorization as understood by reasonable men having knowledge of all the existing factual circumstances, and not by any limi-tational rule of law applicable to all consent searches.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State“The defendant not having expressly limited her consent to the police presence to either time, space, or purpose, we must consider whether the police who responded to her plea for assistance should have understood from all the circumstances that Mrs. Fre-dette desired only a limited search of her home. We conclude that knowing all of the existing factual circumstances, the police could reasonably understand that Mrs. Fre-dette had placed no limitation upon her consent for the search of her home.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State“The depositor takes the risk, in revealing his affairs to another, that the information will be conveyed by that person to the Government____This Court has held repeatedly that the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the obtaining of information revealed to a third party and conveyed by him to Government authorities, even if the information is revealed on the assumption that it will be used only for a limited purpose and the confidence placed in the third party will not be betrayed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gubitosi
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.