United States v. Edmonds’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.2d 1386 · 1980
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably United States v. Hensel (1983), United States v. DeSimone (1981)
17 federal appellate · 5 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 Simmons v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · Jones v. United States · Del Toro v. United States · Byrd v. Wainwright
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While there was a 'no trespassing' sign on the entrance road leading to the premises, an officer who had resided in the area for 23 years testified that the reputation in the community was to the effect that the public was welcome to use the dock area and that the public did use it. The district court found that despite the sign the public had long had free access to the dock, and that conclusion is not plainly erroneous. Other than the presence of the sign, there was no evidence that the dock was 'private' to owner Morgan and those specifically authorized to use it. This was not a dock for private use for either fishing, or embarkation and debarkation of boats, or docking and storage. It was a place not only where boats docked and were unloaded but also a place of business activity where necessarily persons and vehicles had to come and go. The parking lot was open. The officers were not trespassers. They invaded the expected privacy of no one when they drove into the parking lot at the dock.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The defendants argued that nothing the agents observed was admissible because Morgan's Dock was private property and the officers were trespassers. The court disagreed. 61”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“appeared sweaty, smelled of marijuana and was covered with burlap fibers.”
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.