State v. Spietz’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2019
24 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 Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · Agnello v. United States · Hester 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A door of the home represents a firm constitutional barrier whether or not it is open.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a factual basis for a reasonable belief that additional suspects were present and posed a threat to the safety of the arresting officers.... Plain view alone could not justify the warrantless entry through the doorway into the constitutionally protected area of the ... house.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Murdock v. State · Brand v. State“does not contemplate the non-intrusion visual observation, such as where evidence is in 'open view' and therefore seizable in a 'constitutionally non-protected area'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.