Smith v. Slayton’s Empirical Analysis
484 F.2d 1188 · 1973
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
5
states following
July 1988
most recently cited
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · Cady v. Dombrowski · Harris 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here, the justification lay in the- fact that the officer was in a public place, where, along with any other member of the public, he could lawfully look into Smith’s car while it was parked in a public lot and see the seat cover. He did-not illegally intrude on Smith’s property to obtain the view of the evidence that was subsequently admitted at Smith’s trial. Smith’s exposure of this evidence to the plain view of the public indicates such a lack of expectation of privacy that its seizure was inoffensive.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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