Davis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
327 F.2d 301 · 1964
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 11 district · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably People v. Marshall (1968), 95 Wash. 2d 898 - State v. Seagull (1981)
96 federal appellate · 11 district · 101 state decisions — followed in 28 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 26 U.S.C. § 7607
Relies on Johnson v. United States · Ker v. State of California · United States v. Rabinowitz · McDonald 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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Absent express orders from the person in possession against any possible trespass, there is no rule of private or public conduct which makes it illegal per se, or a condemned invasion of the person’s right of privacy, for anyone openly and peaceably, at high noon, to walk up the steps and knock on the front door of any man’s ‘castle’ with the honest intent of asking questions of the occupant thereof — whether the questioner be a pollster, a salesman, or an officer of the law.””
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“From all the evidence before it, the trial court was entitled to conclude then that [the girl’s] opening the door and invitation to enter were not unusual or unexpected or unauthorized acts. There was no evidence that the officers, in any way, suggested or requested an invitation to enter to search the house, or either by “compulsion of authority” or by physically breaking or “barging in”, so much as even impliedly “forced” their way inside defendant’s home.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““On this excursion of law enforcement officers across the quagmire of search and seizure without warrants of any kind, only a thin chain of unusual circumstances upon which beamed the most benign smile of the Goddess of Fortune has enabled them to escape safely and legally with their usually forbidden fruit.””
2 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.