Peterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Richardson v. State (1999), Timberlake v. State (2001)
5 federal appellate · 77 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 Rakas v. Illinois · Ornelas v. United States · Gerstein v. Pugh · Rawlings v. Kentucky · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance 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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] defendant aggrieved by an illegal search and seizure only through the introduction of damaging evidence secured by the search of a third person's premises has not had any of his Fourth Amendment rights infringed.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a defendant must establish ownership, control, possession, or interest in either the premises searched or the property seized.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wilkins v. State · Starks v. State“As part of our death penalty review we will independently consider the jury recommendation against death and determine whether the death penalty is appropriate. However, we will not employ a standard that requires the facts in the record to so clearly point to the imposition of the death penalty that the jury’s recommendation is unreasonable.”
4 later decisions 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.