State v. Kealey’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2023
19 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]urses, briefcases, and luggage constitute traditional repositories of personal belongings protected under the Fourth Amendment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rison · State v. Evans“[T]he owner of lost or mislaid property, who is in the eyes of the common law an inadvertent bailor, retains a reasonable expectation of privacy in the property ... This expectation of privacy is diminished, however, by the fact that the finder/bailee has an obligation to seek out the owner of the goods and try to return them. In other words, the owner's expectation of privacy is diminished to the extent that the finder may examine and search the lost property to determine its owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hamilton“`What a person knowingly exposes to the public is not protected ...' `the reasonableness of [the defendant's] expectation of privacy turned on the defendant's right to exclude others from the premises.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hamilton
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.