Moran v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Richardson v. State (1999), Litchfield v. State (2005)
87 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 · United States v. Leon · Boyd v. United States · Ker v. State of California · Smith v. Maryland
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable search or seizure, shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or thing to be seized.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Quirk · State v. McCaa“Hoosiers are not entirely comfortable with the idea of police officers casually rummaging through trash left at curbside.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bowles v. State · Turner v. State“[The purpose of Article [I], § 11 is to protect from unreasonable police activity, those areas of life that Hoosiers regard as private.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.