State v. Bruzzese’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 306 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 316 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Horton v. California (1990), State v. Marshall (1991)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 306 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 Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Katz v. United States · Carroll 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 316 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the conduct of the law enforcement officer who undertook the search was objectively reasonable, without regard to his or her underlying motives or intent.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'immediately apparent' to the police that the items in plain view were evidence of a crime, contraband, or otherwise subject to seizure.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the touchstone of the Fourth Amendment is reasonableness.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.