People v. Class’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2005
9 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.
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.
“`reveal no reason for the officer to suspect other criminal activity [besides the traffic infractions] or to protect his own safety.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he fact that certain information must be kept, or that it may be of a public nature, does not automatically sanction police intrusion into private space in order to obtain it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. New York v. Class“intrusion . . . was undertaken to obtain information and it exposed . . . hidden areas”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. New York v. Class
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.