Petteway v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
261 F.2d 53 · 1958
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 1989 · most notably Davis v. United States (1964), United States v. Barone (1964)
41 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 United States v. Lee · Safarik v. United States · Smith v. United States · 68 F. Supp. 464 - Mueller v. Campbell
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that it is not a search to observe what is open and patent either in daylight or in artificial light.”
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.