United States v. Woodring’s Empirical Analysis
444 F.2d 749 · 1971
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably United States v. Ramos (1991), United States v. George H. Lustig, United States of America v. Gregory D. Pederson (1977)
37 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Katz v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · Draper v. United States · Green v. United States · Blitz v. Boog
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The officer may break open any outer or inner door or window of a house, or any part of a house, or anything therein, to execute a search warrant, if, after notice of his authority and purpose, he is refused admittance or when necessary to liberate himself or a person aiding him in the execution of the warrant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.