Sayre v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably State v. Rose (1996), Hardister v. State (2006)
1 federal appellate · 36 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 Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Johnson v. United States · Sedillo v. United States · United States v. Jeffers
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection.... But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Weis v. State · Thurman v. State“(1) risk of bodily harm or death; (2) to aid a person in need of assistance; (3) to protect private property; (4) actual or imminent destruction or removal of evidence before a search warrant may be obtained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the possession of paraphernalia which is associated solely with the use of controlled substances is not probative of the issue of whether the defendant kept controlled substances in the building.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Holmes v. State · Bass 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.