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← 229 F. Supp. 205 - Maxwell v. Stephens

229 F. Supp. 205 - Maxwell v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis

1964

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
10
states following
June 1979
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States · Fay v. Noia · Draper v. United States · Brown v. Allen

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

  1. “"It is settled law that a search of the person or premises incident to a lawful arrest is permissible. (Citations Omitted) Since the arrest without a warrant was lawful under the circumstances, it follows that the evidence obtained from the clothes removed from petitioner's body and the thread and hair taken from petitioner's head were not illegally obtained. (Citations Omitted)" Maxwell v. Stephens, 229 F.Supp. 205, 209 .”
    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.