Patler v. Slayton’s Empirical Analysis
503 F.2d 472 · 1974
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably United States v. Miller (1978), State v. Osie (Slip Opinion) (2014)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Katz v. United States · United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The maxim of Katz that the fourth amendment protects ‘people not places’ is of only limited usefulness, for in considering what people can reasonably expect to maintain as private we must inevitably speak in terms of places. Speaking in such terms, we said under similar circumstances in United States v. Brown, 487 F.2d 208, 210 (4th Cir. 1973), cert, denied, 416 U.S. 909 , 94 S.Ct. 1617 , 40 L.Ed.2d 114 (1974): 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. See also United States v. Minton, 488 F.2d 37, 38 (4th Cir. 1973). Even if Pat-ler could be said to have exhibited an actual expectation of privacy in the area searched, we cannot say that such an expectation is one that society is prepared to recognize as ‘reasonable.’ Katz, supra, 389 U.S. at 361 , 88 S.Ct. at 516 (Harlan, J., concurring).” (Emphasis supplied).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A: I believe that he was dark haired and he had either a brownish or a dark brown coat on, and he looked something like what Mr. Patler looks like. Q: Where did you see Mr. Patler? A: I saw Mr. Patler again in the courtroom.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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
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.