United States v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2013
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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. § 659
Relies on Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · United States v. Ventresca
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Fourth Amendment provides for “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects.” The word “houses” in the Fourth Amendment has been extended by the Courts to include the curti-lage .... Thus, the enclosed area surrounding a dwelling place is part of the protected premises.”
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.