Haerr v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
240 F.2d 533 · 1957
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 4 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2004 · most notably Cady v. Dombrowski (1973), Almeida-Sanchez v. United States (1973)
55 federal appellate · 4 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 8 U.S.C. § 1225 (§ 235 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Hester v. United States · United States v. Lee · Ellison v. United States · Lee 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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A search implies an examination of one's premises or person with a view to the discovery of contraband or evidence of guilt to be used in prosecution of a criminal action. The term implies exploratory investigation or quest.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The investigator's conduct was reasonable in every respect and we cannot say that a search was ever instituted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'Rourke v. Hayes
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.