United States v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis
686 F.2d 356 · 1982
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016 · most notably Oliver v. United States (1984), United States v. Pepe (1984)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Rakas v. Illinois · Weeks v. United States · Sedillo 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nder Hester and Katz any expectation of privacy that an owner might have with respect to his open field is not, as a matter of law, an expectation that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“signs at regular intervals and had locked the gate at the entrance to the center of the farm. App. to Pet. for Cert. in No. 82-15, pp. 23-24. Further, the court noted that the field itself is highly secluded: it is bounded on all sides by woods, fences, and embankments and cannot be seen from any point of public access. The court concluded that this was not an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Generally, an open field is not an area entitled to 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.