Roberts v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
332 F.2d 892 · 1964
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1996 · most notably United States v. Matlock (1974), Gurleski v. United States (1968)
65 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 18 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1111
Relies on United States v. Rabinowitz · Harris v. United States · Abel v. United States · Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States · Amos 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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the right of the wife -» * * enter the home which was in her possession and control cannot be seriously questioned and that her invitation to and authorization to the officers to enter and search was an outgrowth thereof. It is not a question of agency, for a wife should not be held to have authority to waive her husband’s constitutional rights. This is a question of the wife’s own rights to authorize entry into the premises where she lives and of which she had control.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"By no stretch of the imagination can it be held that a bullet fired into a ceiling approximately a year before is `associated with person' or has an `intimate relation to' the person of the firer of the weapon." Roberts v. United States, 332 F.2d 892 at 898 (8th Cir.1964), cert. den. 380 U.S. 980 , 85 S.Ct. 1344 , 14 L.Ed.2d 274 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“about the search and seizure is soundly based. There is nothing in the record to indicate that Mrs. Roberts did not give her consent voluntarily * * * [Emphasis supplied] Although defense counsel has not raised the point in his brief, the court has also considered the relevance of N.J.S.A. 2A:84A-17(2) and N.J. Rules of Evidence, Rule 23(2) to this matter. That statute and the rule provided in part that”
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.