Weeks v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
216 F. 292 · 1914
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 8 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1986 · most notably Albrecht v. United States (1927), United States v. Thompson (1920)
22 federal appellate · 8 district · 14 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 Wilson · John Barron John Craig Luke Tiernan John Craig v. Mayor City Council of Baltimore · The United States v. Thomas Reid and Edward Clements · United States v. John Morgan Y · Myers v. People
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the right secured to the individual by the fourth amendment * * * is not a right to have the information, by which he is accused of crime, verified by the oath of the prosecuting officer of the government or to have it supported by the affidavit of some third person. His right is to be protected against the issuance of a warrant for his arrest, except `upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation,' * *.”
1 later decision 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.