State v. Chryst’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2014
9 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. Miller · McGeehan v. Bunch · State v. Glass · 36 Cal. 3d 98 - People v. Chapman
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[h]ad the police obtained Chryst’s address from his driver’s license application, or by checking public property records, there would be little claim that Chryst had a reasonable expectation of privacy from disclosure of his name and address from those sources even though Chryst was required to give that information to exercise his right to drive or own property. The information which is in dispute which [the utility company] gave the police was merely Chryst’s name and address. It was information which was available because Chryst was a consumer of a public utility. Few people would regard the fact that they are consumers of the services of a public utility to be private information. We conclude that under the circumstances in this case, Chryst did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy which society is prepared to recognize in his name and address ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“person's name and address, by themselves, do not constitute information about which a person can have a reasonable expectation of privacy which society is willing to recognize”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Admittedly it cannot be said that all information about a person is private in the Fourth Amendment sense. Katz instructs that “[w]hat a person knowingly exposes to the public * * * is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection,” and certainly some of the information which institutions collect in the course of business transactions fits that description. For example, if law enforcement agents were allowed to consult business records which merely revealed a person’s name or address or telephone number, this does not offend any interests protected by the Fourth Amendment. [ (So too, there is no legitimate expectation of privacy as to certain other information acquired by police examination of the government’s own files.) ] But bank records are another matter, for unquestionably they “can reveal much about a person’s activities, associations, and beliefs.” ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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