United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
449 F.2d 1355 · 1971
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 95 Wash. 2d 898 - State v. Seagull (1981), United States v. Lamont S. Carter, United States of America v. Jerome R. Patterson, United States of America v. Jerome R. Patterson (1975)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 13 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 · Carroll v. United States · Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Johnson 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it cannot be said that [the appellant's] actions in storing the stolen transmission which, no doubt, he would like to have kept hidden in a garage having a nine-inch gap between the doors were calculated to keep his possession of it `strictly private and free from perception by others'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Certainly no one bent on crime is knowingly going to expose to the public the evidence to convict. Here the evidence was locked in a garage, so any suggestion that appellant knowingly exposed it to the public (or the police) would be absurd.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That the policeman may have to crane his neck, or bend over, or squat, does not render the doctrine inapplicable, so long as what he saw would have been visible to any curious passerby.””
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.