Rawlings v. Kentucky’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1,110 federal appellate · 260 district · 2,249 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,477 later decisions (52 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably United States v. Leon (1984), Kimmelman v. Morrison (1986)
1,110 federal appellate · 260 district · 2,249 state decisions — followed in 48 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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Simmons v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · Jones v. United States
Cited together with Rakas v. Illinois · United States v. Salvucci · Katz v. United States · Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun 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 4,477 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the formal arrest followed quickly on the heels of the challenged search of petitioner's person, we do not believe it particularly important that the search preceded the arrest rather than vice versa.”
54 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“whether governmental officials violated any legitimate expectation of privacy held by [the defendant].”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“abandoned a separate inquiry into a defendant's 'standing' to contest an allegedly illegal search in favor of an inquiry that focused directly on the substance of the defendant's claim that he or she possessed a 'legitimate expectation of privacy' in the area searched.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.