Hadley v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
368 F.3d 747 · 2004
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably McClish v. Nugent (2007), United States v. Collins (2007)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Payton v. New York · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Bumper v. North Carolina · Illinois v. Rodriguez
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“equate[s] knowledge (what the officer obtains from the plain view) with a right to enter, and by doing so permit[s] the rule of Payton to be evaded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McClish v. Nugent“The fact that a person answers a knock at the door doesn't mean he agrees to let the person who knocked enter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McClish v. Nugent“was procured by an outright and material lie [that the police had a warrant], and was therefore ineffectual”
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.