Wayne v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
318 F.2d 205 · 1963
Citation profile
108 federal appellate · 19 district · 268 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 455 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Mincey v. Arizona (1978), Nix v. Williams (1984)
108 federal appellate · 19 district · 268 state decisions — followed in 43 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3109
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Boyd v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. 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 455 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The need to protect or preserve life or avoid serious injury is justification for what would be otherwise illegal absent an exigency or emergency.”
74 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It was inevitable that, even had the police not entered appellant’s apartment at that time and in the manner they did, the coroner would sooner or later have . . . obtained the body, and would have conducted the post mortem examination prescribed by law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Evidence is considered as having been obtained as a result of the illegal acts only if' it has been acquired by an exploitation of those acts instead of by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the taint of the illegality.”
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.