Wyman v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
232 federal appellate · 74 district · 222 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 818 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably South Dakota v. Opperman (1976), Graham v. Richardson (1971)
232 federal appellate · 74 district · 222 state decisions — followed in 33 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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Mapp v. Ohio · Chimel v. California · Goldberg v. Kelly · Dandridge v. Williams
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 818 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“approach, the Court stated: 71 This natural and quite proper protective attitude, however, is not a factor in this case, for the seemingly obvious and simple reason that we are not concerned here with any search by the New York social service agency in the Fourth Amendment meaning of that term. It is true that the governing statute and regulations appear to make mandatory the initial home visit and the subsequent periodic”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no more worthy object of the public's concern.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Berry · Doe v. Norton“[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause ...”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.