Locke v. The United States’s Empirical Analysis
11 U.S. 339 · 1813
Citation profile
155 federal appellate · 39 district · 136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 446 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Illinois v. Gates (1983), Carroll v. United States (1925)
155 federal appellate · 39 district · 136 state decisions — followed in 31 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 Wallen v. Williams
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 446 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means less than evidence which would justify condemnation”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the onus probandi shall be upon (the) claimant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. No. 79-1517
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.