State v. Kam’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Pele Defense Fund v. Paty (1992), State v. Gaylord (1995)
97 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 Roe v. Wade · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Hamling v. United States · Miller v. California · Olmstead 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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as the ultimate judicial tribunal with final, unreviewable authority to interpret and enforce the Hawaii Constitution, [the Hawai`i Supreme Court is] free to give broader privacy protection than that given by the federal constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[s]ince a person has the right to view pornographic items at home, there necessarily follows a correlative right to purchase such materials for ... personal use, or the underlying privacy right becomes meaningless.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The right of the people to privacy is recognized and shall not be infringed without the showing of a compelling state interest. The legislature shall take affirmative steps to implement this right.”
2 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.