United States v. Syler’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.2d 68 · 1970
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably United States v. Bradley (1972), United States v. Bethea (1979)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 472
Relies on Chimel v. California · United States v. Ventresca · Weeks v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · Sabbath v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The officer] merely completed the operation voluntarily initiated by defendant. No attempt was made to bar his way and no force was applied in gaining entry.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We also agree with the district court’s finding that force was not employed to gain entrance to the bungalow and no violation of the principles of Sabbath v. United States [, 391 U.S. 585 [ 88 S.Ct. 1755 , 20 L.Ed.2d 828 ] (1968),] occurred. The facts conceded by defendant show that the front door was already open. Apparently responding to the announcement of the arrival of the “Gas man,” defendant unlatched the screen door and partly opened it. [The officer] merely completed the operation voluntarily initiated by defendant. No attempt was made to bar his way and no force was applied in gaining entry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Harada
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.