Samson v. California’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
357 federal appellate · 75 district · 517 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,387 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably 133 S. Ct. 1958 - Maryland v. King (2013), Grady v. North Carolina (2015)
357 federal appellate · 75 district · 517 state decisions — followed in 40 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 Terry v. Ohio · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Morrissey v. Brewer · Delaware v. Prouse · Gagnon v. Scarpelli
Cited together with United States v. Knights · Griffin v. Wisconsin · Terry v. Ohio · Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. · 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 1,387 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“parolees have fewer expectations of privacy than probationers”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“with or without a search warrant and with or without cause.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether a search is reasonable is determined by assessing, on the one hand, the degree to which it intrudes upon an individual's privacy and, on the other, the degree to which it is needed for the promotion of legitimate governmental interests.”
13 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.