Georgia v. Randolph’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
381 federal appellate · 115 district · 583 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,670 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Pearson v. Callahan (2009), Kentucky v. King (2011)
381 federal appellate · 115 district · 583 state decisions — followed in 41 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Chimel v. California
Cited together with United States v. Matlock · Illinois v. Rodriguez · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Payton v. New York · Katz 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 1,670 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] warrantless search of a shared dwelling for evidence over the express refusal of consent by a physically present resident cannot be justified as reasonable as to him on the basis of consent given to the police by another resident.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mutual use of the property by persons generally having joint access or control for most purposes, so that it is reasonable to recognize that any of the co-inhabitants has the right to permit the inspection in his own right and that the others have assumed the risk that one of their number might permit the common area to be searched.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the police have removed the potentially objecting tenant from the entrance for the sake of avoiding a possible objection.”
15 later decisions 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.