Minnesota v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
753 federal appellate · 203 district · 1,330 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,994 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Horton v. California (1990), Minnesota, v. Wayne Thomas Carter (1998)
753 federal appellate · 203 district · 1,330 state decisions — followed in 48 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 Katz v. United States · Payton v. New York · Rakas v. Illinois · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Jones v. United States
Cited together with Rakas v. Illinois · Payton v. New York · Katz v. United States · Minnesota, v. Wayne Thomas Carter · Welsh v. Wisconsin
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 2,994 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“legitimate expectation of privacy in his host's home”
78 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“legitimate expectation of privacy in the invaded place.”
41 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Olson's status as an overnight guest is alone enough to show that he had an expectation of privacy in the home that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable.”
19 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.