United States v. Barrows’s Empirical Analysis
481 F.3d 1246 · 2007
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2025
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Brigham City v. Stuart · O'CONNOR v. Ortega · California v. Greenwood · United States v. Arango · United States v. Erwin
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case, the defendant voluntarily moved his personal computer into a public space and took no measures to protect its contents from public inspection. Consequently, he did not enjoy a reasonable expectation of privacy, and in the officers’ search there were no Fourth Amendment violations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Aschinger“is Mr. Barrows's failure to password protect his computer, turn it off, or taken any other steps to prevent third-party use. ... Given these facts, we are hard-pressed to conclude that Mr. Barrows harbored a subjective expectation of privacy. He certainly did not possess a reasonable one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“private ownership is an important factor telling in favor of Fourth Amendment protection, ... the significance of personal ownership is particularly weakened when the item in question is being used for business purposes.”
1 later decision 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.