State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
August 1986
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · Arkansas v. Sanders · Michigan v. Tyler
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the plain view] exception permits government officials to seize clearly incriminating evidence or contraband without a warrant if the official (1) has a prior justification for the intrusion into the protected area; (2) discovers the incriminating evidence inadvertently; and (3) immediately recognizes that he has evidence before him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.