Nathanson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
290 U.S. 41 · 1933
Citation profile
329 federal appellate · 62 district · 529 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,158 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Illinois v. Gates (1983), United States v. Leon (1984)
329 federal appellate · 62 district · 529 state decisions — followed in 48 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
reviewedNathanson v. United States (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Gouled v. United States · United States v. Lefkowitz · Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States
Cited together with Aguilar v. Texas · Jones v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Giordenello 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 1,158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A sworn statement of an affiant that 'he has cause to suspect and does believe that' liquor illegally brought into the United States is located on certain premises will not do.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mere affirmance of belief or suspicion is not enough.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a mere affirmation of suspicion and belief without any statement of adequate supporting facts”
10 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.