United States v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
34 F.3d 992 · 1994
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably State v. Siegal (1997), United States v. Cusumano (1996)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Katz v. United States · United States v. Place · Oliver v. United States · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Hester 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conclude that this surveillance was `so revealing of intimate details as to raise constitutional concerns.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[n]one of the interests which form the basis for the need for protection of a residence, namely the intimacy, personal autonomy and privacy associated with a home, are threatened by thermal imagery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the fact that a surveillance device allowed for super- or extra-sensory perception is not fatal to a Katz analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.