Ramirez v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
263 F.2d 385 · 1959
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1976 · most notably Almeida-Sanchez v. United States (1973), United States v. Peltier (1975)
57 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Brinegar v. United States · Draper v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · Haerr v. United States · King 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In addition, I think the officers had reasonable grounds to believe that a customs offense was being committed even though the cheeking point was, of necessity, somewhat removed from the border. Defendants were nervous and evasive; they were reluctant to have the trunk of the automobile opened at all.””
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.