Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 1987 · most notably Lockett v. State (1987), 84 N.J. Super. 508 - State v. Griffin (1964)
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 Marron v. United States · Tucker v. State · State v. Hawkins · Glennon v. Britton · Owens v. State
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.
““In the instant case, the officers were lawfully upon the premises. They found the stolen property, the possession of which was illegal and the equivalent of ‘contraband’ or of a contraband nature. They seized the property unlawfully in appellant’s possession. The seizure was an incident of a lawful search, during which the officers found the stolen property. See 9 Words and Phrases, p. 206, and Pocket Parts, p. 66, and 17 C.J.S., pp. 288-289 (defining ‘contraband’). Where entry upon the premises is lawful, as was the one here, contraband open to observation may be seized. 79 C.J.S., Searches and Seizures, § 17, states that ‘Among those articles the possession of which has been declared to be illegal per se, and the seizure of which is not within the constitutional guaranty, are * * * stolen property * * *.’ State v. Hawkins, Mo.Sup.1951, 240 S.W.2d 688 ; Patterson v. Commonwealth, 1933, 252 Ky. 285 , 66 S.W.2d 513 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where entry on the premises is lawful, contraband open to observation may be seized. Similarly, if entry on the premises is authorized and the search is valid, the constitutional guaranty does not inhibit the seizure of property the possession of which is a crime, even though the searching officers are not aware that such property is on the premises when the search is initiated... . Among those articles the possession of which has been declared to be illegal per se, and the seizure of which is not within the constitutional guaranty, are "black-jacks," counterfeit coin, gambling devices, forged instruments, lottery tickets, obscene literature, stolen property, and other articles of like character.”
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.