Rees v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2014 · most notably Rees v. Peyton (1966), Satcher v. Commonwealth (1992)
6 federal appellate · 39 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Boyd v. United States · Irvin v. Dowd · United States v. Rabinowitz · Gouled 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘* * the home which the agents searched was the home of M?. and Mrs. Melvin Davis Rees, Sr., and not the home of the defendant. “ ‘The Court further finds that the consent to the search was freely and intelligently given by both Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Davis Rees, Sr. There was no actual or implied coercion. The agents practiced neither trickery nor fraud. “ ‘The accordian case which was found in the attic was in the possession of Mr. Melvin Davis Rees, Sr. The Court finds that he did not claim either the case or the gun were his son’s. * * * His consent to have it opened was freely given. * * * He consented to the removal of the case and its contents after he had an opportunity to inspect them. * * * “ ‘The Court finds that the search was not exploratory. The search was not broader than the consent which authorized it. The agents were looking for specific objects connected with the Jackson crime including the gun they found in the case. * * * ’ ””
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.