United States v. Hitchcock’s Empirical Analysis
467 F.2d 1107 · 1972
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Hudson v. Palmer (1984), United States v. Hearst (1977)
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 · Price v. Johnston · Lanza v. State of New York
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The protection of the Fourth Amendment no longer depends upon ‘constitutionally protected’ places. Instead, we must consider ‘first that a person have exhibited an actual (subjective) expectation of privacy and second, that the expectation be one that society is prepared to recognize as “reasonable.” ’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is obvious that a jail shares none of the attributes of privacy of a home, an automobile, an office, or a hotel room. In prison, official surveillance had traditionally been the order of the day.”
2 later decisions 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.