Silverman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
681 federal appellate · 130 district · 743 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,120 later decisions (139 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Wong Sun v. United States (1963), Katz v. United States (1967)
681 federal appellate · 130 district · 743 state decisions — followed in 48 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJulius Silverman v. United States of America, Meyer Schwartz v. United States of America, Robert L. Martin v. United States (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Jones v. United States · Boyd v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Olmstead v. United States · McDonald v. United States
Cited together with Katz v. United States · Payton v. New York · Wong Sun v. United States · Olmstead v. United States · Terry v. Ohio
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 2,120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]t the very core [of the Fourth Amendment] stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.”
91 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A man can still control a small part of his environment, his house; he can retreat thence from outsiders, secure in the knowledge that they cannot get at him without disobeying the Constitution. That is still a sizable hunk of liberty--worth protecting from encroachment. A sane, decent, civilized society must provide some such oasis, some shelter from public scrutiny, some insulated enclosure, some enclave, some inviolate place which is a man's castle.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“eavesdropping was accomplished by means of an unauthorized physical penetration into the premises occupied”
6 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.