Botts v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3501
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Katz v. United States · Chimel v. California · Chambers v. Maroney · Maryland ex rel. Levin 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“searches conducted outside the judicial process, without prior approval by judge or magistrate, are per se unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment subject only to a few specifically established and well-delineated exceptions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.