Arizona v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
794 federal appellate · 136 district · 1,204 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,664 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Horton v. California (1990), Wilson v. Layne (1999)
794 federal appellate · 136 district · 1,204 state decisions — followed in 49 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 · Carroll v. United States · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · United States v. Cortez
Cited together with Horton v. California · Texas v. Brown · Terry v. Ohio · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Katz 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 2,664 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.”
72 later decisions quote this exact passage“Dispensing with the need for a warrant is worlds apart from permitting a lesser standard of cause for the seizure than a warrant would require, i.e., the standard of probable cause. No reason is apparent why an object should routinely be seizable on lesser grounds, during an unrelated search and seizure, than would have been needed to obtain a warrant for that same object if it had been known to be on the premises.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“there is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.