Hoffman v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably People v. McNeese (1995), Sundheim v. Board of Cty. Com'rs of Douglas Cty. (1995)
26 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 · Kotteakos v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Boyd 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The existence of a legitimate expectation of privacy must be determined after examining all the facts and circumstances in each particular case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At common law, the curtilage is the area to which extends the intimate activity associated with the `sanctity of a man's home and the privacies of life.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““Thus, in general, a curtilage is not protected from observations that are lawfully made from outside its perimeter not involving physical intrusion.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.