State v. Matias’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a person has a `halo' of privacy wherever he goes and can invoke a protectable right to privacy wherever he may legitimately be and reasonably expect freedom from governmental intrustion.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Rocker · State v. Delmondo

2. “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Vinuya

3. “The Court’s recent-decision in Katz v. United States; 389 U.S. 347 , also makes it clear that capacity to claim the protection of the amendment depends not upon a property right In the'invaded place but upon whether the area was one in which there wás a réasonable ex- . pectation of freedom .from governmental intrusion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Dias