State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2017
2 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Rakas v. Illinois · United States v. Matlock · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining the reasonableness of a person's expectation of privacy on these facts, a correct analysis requires that we also consider . . . the degree of intrusioninherent in the continuous nature of video surveillance”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unarguable that television surveillance is exceedingly intrusive ... and inherently indiscriminate, and that it could be grossly abused-to eliminate personal privacy as understood in modern Western nations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cowles 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.