State v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 district · 302 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 310 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall (1986), Doe v. Poritz (1995)
6 district · 302 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Alderman v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Nardone v. United States
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 310 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... is entitled to assume that the numbers he dials in the privacy of his home will be recorded solely for the telephone company's purposes. From the viewpoint of the customer, all the information which he furnishes with respect to a particular call is private. The numbers dialed are private. The call is made from a person's home or office, locations entitled to protection under the Fourth Amendment and Article I, par. 7 of the New Jersey Constitution.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he toll billing record is a part of the privacy package.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the police wrongfully obtained the toll billing records ... in that they were procured without any judicial sanction or proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.