Segurola v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
275 U.S. 106 · 1927
Citation profile
196 federal appellate · 15 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 346 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Jones v. United States (1960), Harris v. United States (1947)
196 federal appellate · 15 district · 73 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSegurola v. United States (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Weeks v. United States · Agnello v. United States · Marron v. United States · Gouled v. United States · Amos 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 346 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(E)xcept where there has been no opportunity to present the matter in advance of trial, . . . a court, when engaged in trying a criminal case, will not . . . permit a collateral issue to be raised as to the source of competent evidence. To pursue it would be to halt in the orderly progress of a cause and consider incidentally a question which has happened to cross the path of such litigation and which is wholly independent of it.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The results of the search and 'seizure, were shown by the testimony of the chief of police and of the other witnesses without any objection on behalf of the defendants; and thus was disclosed the fact that the defendants had been engaged in transporting a large amount of liquor in the Buick. No motion was made to strike that evidence out, and no evidence was introduced to contradict what was disclosed by the statements of the chief of police and other witnesses upon this point. The only objection made toward the close of the evidence for the government was that, when it was proposed to introduce the liquor, it had not been properly identified, but there was ample evidence to show that it had. The motion made thereafter to suppress the liquor as evidence, on the ground that there had. been an illegal search, did not include a motion to strike out the evidence of the witnesses as to what occurred when the ear was stopped. The objection to the seizure was plainly an afterthought. “As there was no evidence introduced by the. defendants to refute or deny the testimony unobjeeted to, which clearly showed the illegal transportation of the liquor and sustained the verdict, the admission in evidence of the liquor and the refusal to permit cross-examination of Ceballos worked no prejudice for which a reversal can be granted.””
2 later decisions 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.