United States v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
321 F.2d 739 · 1963
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 1989 · most notably Amador-Gonzalez v. United States (1968), United States v. Woods (1976)
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Draper v. United States · Ker v. State of California · United States v. Rabinowitz · Agnello v. United States · Harris 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An arrest may not be used as a pretext or subterfuge for making a search of premises without a search warrant where ordinarily one would be required under the Fourth Amendment. If, in fact, the primary purpose of forcibly entering a person’s home is to search for evidence with which to convict him of crime, the evidence so obtained is not admissible in court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The real purpose of the agents must be determined from all of the facts and circumstances surrounding the arrest of the defendant and the search of his apartment. The court is not bound to accept the purpose as stated by the agents as controlling.”
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.