Clay v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
239 F.2d 196 · 1956
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Chessman v. Teets (1957), Niro v. United States (1968)
48 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1301 (Charity Games Advertising Clarification Act of 1988) · 18 U.S.C. § 2235 · 18 U.S.C. § 545 · 20 U.S.C. § 3321 · 26 U.S.C. § 3321 · 26 U.S.C. § 4401 · 26 U.S.C. § 7302 · 27 U.S.C. § 1
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · Spies 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * while the ease and practicability of obtaining the warrant of arrest or to search, Trupiano v. United States, 334 U.S. 699 , 68 S.Ct. 1229 , 92 L.Ed. 1663 , is no longer an invariable rule of thumb, United States v. Rabinowitz, 339 U.S. 56 , 70 S.Ct. 430 , 94 L.Ed. 653 , availability of the safeguards afforded by an impartial, judicial magistrate is a factor bearing on reasonable, probable cause. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Compliance with and enforcement of laws intended to secure basic freedoms to the citizen is as much the duty of the officer, Miller v. United States, 5 Cir., 230 F.2d 486 [489], as is the successful making and prosecution of cases under those Federal statutes committed to an agency.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * [T]he mere act of a known gambler driving an automobile on a public highway will not justify an officer forcing him to stop to be searched or arrested * * * And yet that is all that occurred on January 28.””
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.