No. 91-3247’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2025
2 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 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 Illinois v. Gates · Wong Sun v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This requirement stems from the fact that an exception to the warrant preference rule excuses the government only from the necessity of going before a magistrate; it does not alter the underlying level of cause necessary to support entry.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Kh · In re K.H.“All searches of the home, whether by warrant or pursuant to a recognized exception, must be supported by some form of probable cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Kh
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.