State v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2013
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Chimel v. California · Rakas v. Illinois · Johnson 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]aw enforcement personnel may enter commercial premises without a warrant only when, pursuant to a routine after-hours security check undertaken to protect the interests of the property owner, it is discovered that the security of the premises is in jeopardy, and only when there is no reason to believe that the owner would not consent to such an entry.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Expectations of privacy are not all of the same intensity.... Both subjectively and in society's judgment as to what is reasonable, distinctions may be made in the varying degrees of privacy retained in different places and objects.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The narrowly defined classes of cases which justify invasion of privacy without a warrant are these instances where there is a ‘compelling need for official action and no time to secure a warrant.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Gallmeyer v. State
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.