State v. Harriman’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2018
20 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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n individual who exposes an object to public view has no reasonable expectation of privacy in that object. Where such expectancy is lacking, the observation of the object does not constitute ■& search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, regardless of whether the observation is made by a police officer or private citizen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he plain view sighting of contraband or evidence of crime does not, standing alone, give rise to a right to enter a constitutionally protected area to seize the item”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“plain view alone is never enough to justify the warrantless seizure of evidence”
1 later decision 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.