Grau v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
287 U.S. 124 · 1932
Citation profile
88 federal appellate · 8 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 242 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2006 · most notably Brinegar v. United States (1949), Spinelli v. United States (1969)
88 federal appellate · 8 district · 57 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Gouled v. United States · Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States · Steele v. United States No. 1 · Byars 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 242 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A search warrant may issue only upon evidence which would be competent in the trial of the offense before a jury (Giles v. United States, 1 Cir., 284 F. 208 ; Wagner v. United States, 8 Cir., 8 F.2d 581 ); and would lead a man of prudence and caution to believe that the offense has been committed. (Steele v. United States, 267 U.S. 498 , 504, 45 S.Ct. 414 , 69 L.Ed. 757 .)”*”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“liberally construed to prevent impairment of the protection extended.”
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.