United States v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
37 F.3d 313 · 1994
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably United States v. Duguay (1996), Valance v. Wisel (1997)
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · New York v. Belton · Texas v. Brown · Horton v. California · Idaho v. Wright
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the officer [seizing the evidence] did not violate the Fourth Amendment in arriving at the place from which the evidence could be plainly viewed;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kykta v. Washington“incriminating character [of the evidence was] immediately apparent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kykta v. Washington“a lawful right of access to the object itself,”
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.