98 Conn. App. 542 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Johnson (2008), 106 Conn. App. 572 - State v. Kimble (2008)
25 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 · Maryland v. Wilson · Negron v. United States · Griffith v. United States · Brown v. North Carolina
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.
“[a] passenger in a motor vehicle, who fails to demonstrate a possessory interest in the car itself or in any of the seized evidence, has no reasonable expectation of privacy in the area of the vehicle searched, and ... is precluded from contesting the validity of the search.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“because [defendant] has not been able to establish an expectation of privacy in the area of the automobile that was searched, he has no standing to challenge the constitutionality of the search”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“will not be disturbed unless [they are] clearly erroneous in view of the evidence and pleadings in the whole record.... [H]owever, when a question of fact is essential to the outcome of a particular legal determination that implicates a defendant's constitutional rights, and the credibility of witnesses is not the primary issue, our customary deference to the trial court's factual findings is tempered by a scrupulous examination of the record to ascertain that the trial court's factual findings are supported by substantial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.