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United States v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis

657 F.2d 85 · 1981

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
June 1987
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Katz v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · Mincey v. Arizona · Hester v. United States · Whitten 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “.. . Oliver’s expectation of privacy was objectively reasonable. Society’s interest in law enforcement is not unduly hampered by requiring a warrant prior to searching a private field which has been reached through a private road exhibiting several “No Trespassing” signs and blocked by a locked gate, unless there is an imminent threat of destruction of the evidence or there exists a high probability that the evidence will cause serious bodily harm. We are presented with no such emergency situation here.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “fall within the limits of what society can accept given its interest in law enforcement.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “normally shared by people in that setting”
    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.