Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
282 U.S. 344 · 1931
Citation profile
774 federal appellate · 98 district · 337 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,559 later decisions (123 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Terry v. Ohio (1968), United States v. Leon (1984)
774 federal appellate · 98 district · 337 state decisions — followed in 43 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Agnello v. United States · Marron v. United States
Cited together with Weeks v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · United States v. Lefkowitz · Carroll v. United States · Agnello 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 1,559 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.' This prevents the issue of warrants on loose, vague or doubtful bases of fact.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no formula for the determination of reasonableness. Each case is to be decided on its own facts and circumstances.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“United States commissioners are inferior officers.”
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.