Barnato v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Allen v. State (1975), Sparkman v. State (1979)
23 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even if the Control Officer himself may be considered a private citizen, State action clearly was involved when he surreptitiously seized plant samples from the [appellants'] garden.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. MOONEY v. STATE · Mooney v. State“they took a leaf from one of the plants.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. MOONEY v. STATE · Mooney v. State“plain view alone is never enough to justify the warrantless seizure of evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'Herron
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.