People v. Gomez’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably People v. Bartowsheski (1983), People v. Sporleder (1983)
42 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 · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a police officer, while walking on the sidewalk used as a common entrance way to a motel unit, observes through a visual aperture in the window curtains the actions of the defendant occurring inside the motel unit, the observations of the officer do not constitute a `search' in the constitutional sense of that term and do not violate the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution or Article II, Section 7 of the Colorado Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Donald“[a] sidewalk, pathway, common entrance or similar passageway offers an implied permission to the public to enter which necessarily negates any reasonable expectation of privacy in regard to observations made there,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Donald“involves `some exploratory investigation, or an invasion and quest, a looking for or seeking out,' and ` implies a prying into hidden places for that which is concealed. '”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Boylan
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.