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Saffell v. Crews’s Empirical Analysis

183 F.3d 655 · 1999

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
April 2012
most recently cited

18 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Schmerber v. State of California · Hunter v. Bryant · United States v. Montoya De Hernandez

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “that Customs agents have free license to exceed what is reasonable and proper under the law in order to accomplish their important responsibilities. They must be sensitive to their intrusive powers and not abuse and misuse those powers....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “in the most intimate area of her body, a place where drugs are sometimes known to be secreted by women.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “A right is not clearly established if officers of reasonable competence could disagree on the issue.”
    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.