Marron v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
275 U.S. 192 · 1927
Citation profile
1,051 federal appellate · 254 district · 935 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,887 later decisions (152 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Wong Sun v. United States (1963), Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1971)
1,051 federal appellate · 254 district · 935 state decisions — followed in 47 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
reviewedMarron v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Boyd v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Agnello v. United States
Cited together with United States v. Rabinowitz · Harris v. United States · Stanford v. Texas · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Weeks 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 2,887 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The requirement that warrants shall particularly describe the things to be seized makes general searches under them impossible and prevents the seizure of one thing under a warrant describing another. As to what is to be taken, nothing is left to the discretion of the officer executing the warrant.”
77 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“nothing is left to the discretion of the officer executing the warrant.”
56 later decisions quote this exact passage“particularly describ[e] the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
32 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.