Beasley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2008
10 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Oliver v. United States · Hester v. United States · Wilson v. State · Jackson v. State of Texas
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The “open fields” doctrine allows law enforcement officers to enter and search an area of land without a warrant. The term “open field” may be defined as any unoccupied or undeveloped area outside the curtilage of a dwelling. An “open field” need not be “open” or a “field” as those terms are commonly understood. A fenced, thickly wooded area may be an “open field” for the purpose of analysis under the Fourth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barton 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.