United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
641 F.2d 602 · 1981
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably United States v. O'Connell (1988), State v. Poland (1982)
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary · Lewis 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e recognize 'the necessity for some undercover police activity' and that 'in the detection of many types of crime, the Government is entitled to use decoys and to conceal the identity of its agents.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his or her own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection.”
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.