Abney v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2010
1 district · 7 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 United States v. O'Brien · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence · Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person who, without lawful authority, shall enter, or attempt to enter, any public or private dwelling, building or other property, or part of such dwelling, building or other property, against the will of the lawful occupant or of the person lawfully in charge thereof, or being therein or thereon, without lawful authority to remain therein or thereon shall refuse to quit the same on the demand of the lawful occupant, or of the person lawfully in charge thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Even if a more appropriate response to the situation could have been formulated, ... the validity of the... order does not turn on a judge's agreement with the responsible decisionmaker concerning the most appropriate method for promoting significant government interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he idea that courts should ... second-guess[] the responsible authorities about how a legitimate governmental interest might have been achieved better has been rejected explicitly by the Supreme Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.