Youman v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 district · 200 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 221 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2019 · most notably Carroll v. United States (1925), Elkins v. United States (1960)
2 federal appellate · 9 district · 200 state decisions — followed in 28 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 Boyd v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Bram v. United States · Albert Adams v. People of the State of New York · People v. Adams
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 221 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions from unreasonable search and seizure.””
2 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.