State v. Kealey’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2017
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 Katz v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · United States v. Chadwick · Rawlings v. Kentucky · Smith v. Maryland
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The laws of trespass and tort are not controlling when considering whether the Fourth Amendment applies or is violated in a particular case, but reference to those laws may be helpful in resolving whether a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment. [22]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kealey“no thought was ever given to obtaining a warrant before searching the purse. Nor was any thought given to justification for a warrantless search. The search of the purse was undertaken simply to establish its ownership.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kealey“`Finders keepers, losers weepers' is a time-worn old saying, but not true. The finder of lost goods is a bailee of them for the true owner with certain rights and obligations....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kealey
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.