Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
412 F.2d 729 · 1969
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably United States v. Colbert (1973), United States v. Lawson (1973)
21 federal appellate · 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. § 2312
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Jones v. United States · 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Preston and Cooper are somewhat difficult of analysis because they represent two distinct approaches to the same kind of case. In Preston , the Court tacitly assumed, probably because of the way the case was argued, that the search would be unlawful if not incident to arrest. On the basis of the conclusion that ‘[o]nee an accused is under arrest and in custody, then a search made at another place, without a warrant, is simply not incident to the arrest,’ 376 U.S. at 367 , 84 S.Ct. at 883 , the search was held unlawful. In Cooper , on the other hand, it could not even be argued that the search was incident to a valid arrest, but rather than confine its attention to that question, as it had done in Preston , the Court went on to consider the reasonableness of the search under all the circumstances. As we read the opinion, the Court held that any warrantless search is to be judged by its reasonableness under all the circumstances. In taking this approach, the Court adopted as its test a dictum from United States v. Rabinowitz, 1950, 339 U.S. 56, 66 , 70 S.Ct. 430, 435 , 94 L.Ed. 653 : ‘The relevant test is not whether it is reasonable to procure a search warrant, but whether the search was reasonable’ (quoted in Cooper at 386 U.S. 62 , 87 S.Ct. 791 ).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dombrowski v. Cady“In fact, the reason given for the search — that the police searched all impounded cars — was so vague that it could not be specifically related to anything and could not justify any warrantless search. * * * This policy of making a general search was not specifically related to the reason the car was impounded and, as we interpret the cases, will not pass muster.”
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.