State v. Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2018
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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · United States v. Matlock
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... The use .of electronic surveillance equipment, which is hidden from view on the person of a consenting party to a conversation, does not ‘invade the privacy’ of the other party or parties in the conversation within the meaning of our Constitution, and, therefore, the warrant requirement does not attach.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Marks · State v. Taylor“Society seeks to foster truth, not to suppress it. The presence of the electronic transmitter has but one effect. Instead of the informant committing the conversation to memory, a machine tapes each and every sentence of the communication. The machine notes the inflection of the voices and the context in which remarks are made. If the defendant speaks innocently, his own words will exculpate him. However, if he implicates himself, the recordings prevent him from denying his participation in the conversation. Surely, society would not consider reasonable an expectation of privacy which would result in a more inaccurate version of the events in question.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““The universal interpretation of provisions similar to Article 1, Section 5 and the Fourth Amendment ... has been that government intrusion upon any of the elements of personal security specifically listed therein by a search or seizure conducted outside of the judicial process, without prior approval of a judge or magistrate, is prohibited as unreasonable per se.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.