United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
314 F.2d 795 · 1963
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 1982 · most notably Wilson v. Porter (1966), Bailey v. United States (1967)
43 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 Weeks v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · Elkins v. United States · Henry v. United States · United States v. Di Re
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 62 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.”
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.