Byars v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
273 U.S. 28 · 1927
Citation profile
620 federal appellate · 93 district · 342 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,450 later decisions (159 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Wong Sun v. United States (1963), Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1971)
620 federal appellate · 93 district · 342 state decisions — followed in 40 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedByars v. United States (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Agnello v. United States · Gouled v. United States
Cited together with Weeks v. United States · Lustig v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Gambino v. United States · Carroll v. United States
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 1,450 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not question the right of the federal government to avail itself of evidence improperly seized by state officers operating entirely upon their own account. But the rule is otherwise when the federal government itself, through its agents acting as such, participates in the wrongful search and seizure.””
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) search prosecuted in violation of the Constitution is not made lawful by what it brings to light.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whether it [the state search warrant] is good under the state law it is not necessary to inquire, since in no event could it constitute the basis for a federal search and seizure.””
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.