Trujillo v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
294 F.2d 583 · 1961
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably United States v. Burns (1980), City of St. Paul v. Vaughn (1975)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Hester v. United States · United States v. Lee · Lee v. United States · Petteway 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is not a search to observe that which occurs openly in a public place and which is fully disclosed to visual observation."”
3 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.