United States v. Hillyard’s Empirical Analysis
677 F.2d 1336 · 1982
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2016 · most notably Arizona v. Hicks (1987), United States v. Disla (1986)
69 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · Marron v. United States · Andresen v. Maryland · Harris v. McRae
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be construed with reference to the affidavit ... if (1) the affidavit accompanies the warrant, and (2) the warrant uses suitable words of reference which incorporate the affidavit.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`nothing is left to the discretion of the officer executing the warrant.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... an officer may inspect an item found in plain view to determine whether it is evidence of a crime if he 'has a”
3 later decisions 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.