United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
487 F.2d 208 · 1973
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
3
states following
April 1983
most recently cited
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Hester v. United States · Taylor 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellants’ reasonable expectations of privacy—while extending to their dwellings and the immediate area around them and even to the area occupied by outbuildings such as the barns in question . —cannot, in light of Hester , be said to include the ‘open fields’ around the barn.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“persons, houses, papers and effects . . . .”
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.