State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · Amalgamated Ass'n of Street, Electric Railway & Motor Coach Employees v. Lockridge · State v. Riddick
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the officers must have prior justification for the intrusion onto the premises being searched (other than observing the object which is later contended to have been in plain view). Secondly, the incriminating evidence must be inadvertently discovered by the officers while on the premises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Having seen the letters and photographs in a place where he was clearly authorized to search for heroin, Deputy Parin was not required thereafter to forget or ignore the fact that he had seen them.”
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.