Spring v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 2019
5 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 Katz v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Jones 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(P)hysical entry of the home is the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed, and (i)n terms that apply equally to seizures of property and to seizures of persons, the Fourth Amendment has drawn a firm line at the entrance to the house. Neither may that threshold be reasonably crossed without a warrant by police officers, nor may the locked door be opened by the landlord or his agent to permit them to do so, for to uphold such an entry, search and seizure without a warrant would reduce the (Fourth) Amendment to a nullity and leave (tenants’) homes secure only in the discretion of (landlords).”
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.