United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
581 F.2d 451 · 1978
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably Oliver v. United States (1984), United States v. Dunn (1987)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 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
Relies on Katz v. United States · Hester v. United States · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · Romano v. United States · Lauchli 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.
“as to outbuildings that are not encompassed by a fence that also includes the house, or perhaps a privacy or exclusionary one around them, the outer limits of the curtilage are defined by the walls of the remote outbuildings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“keep the hogs in, not to keep anyone out,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“... whatever minor practical significance [the fence] may have retained for the hogs, it has no legal significance for us.”
1 later decision 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.