State v. Penn’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2025
17 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Rakas v. Illinois · Sedillo v. United States · Illinois v. Rodriguez · Marshall v. Barlow's, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The Warrant Clause of the Fourth Amendment protects commercial buildings as well as private homes. To hold otherwise would belie the origin of the Amendment, and the American colonial experience. * * *'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sky Lake“Ohio's parallel provision to the Fourth Amendment also protects commercial buildings in the same manner it protects private homes and offices * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sky Lake“the board cannot act as a surrogate for the police to obviate the constitutional duty of obtaining a search warrant”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Welch
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.