Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably United States v. Grubbs (2006), Motley
3 district · 2 state decisions
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.
Relationships
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Graham v. Connor · United States v. Leon · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only one or a few officers plan and lead a search, but more — perhaps many more — help execute it. The officers who lead the team that executes a warrant are responsible for ensuring that they have lawful authority for their actions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Line officers, on the other hand, are required to do much less.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“). Even the most careful proofreaders let mistakes slip by, especially when checking their own work. 20 Nevertheless, Groh is not entitled to qualified immunity. According to his own affidavit, he did not read the warrant after the magistrate issued it and before he began the search. Had he done so, he would surely have realized that it did not contain a list of items to be seized and was therefore facially defective. He would then have been able to correct the error before going forward with the search. In most cases,”
1 later decision 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.