United States v. Vaneaton’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 1423 · 1995
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably LaLonde v. County of Riverside (2000), McClish v. Nugent (2007)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Payton v. New York · United States v. Watson · United States v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · United States v. Santana · United States v. Johnson
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.
“by opening the door as he did, Vaneaton exposed himself in a public place. His warrantless arrest, therefore, does not offend the Fourth Amendment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The police did not enter the house until they formally placed Vaneaton under arrest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when Vaneaton saw [the uniformed police officers] through the window, he voluntarily opened the door . . . . .”
2 later decisions 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.