Weltz v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2024
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
Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Schmerber v. State of California · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Ker v. State of California · Preston 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A search implies a prying into hidden places for that which is concealed and that the object searched for has been hidden or intentionally put out of way. While it has been said that ordinarily searching is a function of sight, it is generally held that the mere looking at that which is open to view is not a `search'." [5] [Footnote omitted.]”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“issue has generated substantial confusion in the trial courts. IS A BREATHALYZER EXAMINATION A SEARCH? The state and federal constitutions protect the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, and other property, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures. See Alaska Const. art. 1, § 14; U.S. Const. amend. IV. Neither constitution defines the term”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The applicable constitutional provisions reach only unreasonable searches and seizures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stevens 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.