State v. Alston’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
246 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 246 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Novembrino (1987), State v. Fritz (1987)
246 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 · Carroll v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Simmons v. United States · Chimel v. California
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 246 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if he has a proprietary, possessory or participatory interest in either the place searched or the property seized.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“... American federalism confers upon this Court the power to afford the citizens of this State greater protection against unreasonable searches and seizures than may be required by the Supreme Court's interpretation. [ State v. Alston, 88 N.J. 211, 225 , 440 A. 2d 1311 (1981)].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]dherence to the vague `legitimate expectation of privacy' standard, subject as it is to the potential for inconsistent and capricious application, will in many instances produce results contrary to commonly held and accepted expectations of privacy”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Bruski · State v. Kypreos
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.