Payton v. New York’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3,068 federal appellate · 586 district · 5,916 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12,396 later decisions (197 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Illinois v. Gates (1983), Anderson v. Creighton (1987)
3,068 federal appellate · 586 district · 5,916 state decisions — followed in 50 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. § 3052 · 18 U.S.C. § 3109
Relies on Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Chimel v. California
Cited together with Katz v. United States · Steagald v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Johnson v. United States · Terry v. Ohio
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 12,396 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The 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, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
650 later decisions quote this exact passage“If there is sufficient evidence of a citizen’s participation in a felony to persuade a judicial officer that his arrest is justified, it is constitutionally reasonable to require him to open his doors to the officers of the law. Thus, for Fourth Amendment purposes, an arrest warrant founded on probable cause implicitly carries with it the limited authority to enter a dwelling in which the suspect lives when there is reason to believe the suspect is within.”
41 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a grave concern, not only to the individual but to a society which chooses to dwell in reasonable security and freedom from surveillance.”
37 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.