United States v. Head’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 1422 · 1986
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Tarantino v. Baker (1987), United States v. Boden (1988)
19 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 21 U.S.C. § 881 (§ 511 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Texas v. Brown · Brown v. Texas · California v. Carney
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is no legitimate expectation of privacy shielding that portion of the interior of an automobile which may be viewed from outside the vehicle by either inquisitive passersby or diligent police officers.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of fourth amendment protection.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a police officer who is in a place where he has a right to be, is not conducting a search when he looks through car windows.”
2 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.