Marsh v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
344 F.2d 317 · 1965
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1989 · most notably Almeida-Sanchez v. United States (1973), United States v. Warner (1971)
78 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 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 2 U.S.C. § 192
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Boyd v. United States · Stirone v. United States · Russell 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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[I]f the Government seeks to qualify the action as a geographically ‘extended’ border search, it must show at least the circumstances known to the officers at the border which reasonably justified the request relayed to officers in the interior. Any other doctrine would render travelers who had recently entered this country subject to almost unlimited arrest and search without any cause save the simple request of a border officer to one at an interior point. In our view this cannot be squared with the test of reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"... those lawfully within the country, entitled to use the public highways, have a right to free passage without interruption or search unless there is known to a competent official, authorized to search, probable cause for believing that their vehicles are carrying contraband or illegal merchandise."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““The right of border search is indeed broad, and the border itself is elastic. Judged by Texas standards sixty-three miles is a small distance, and if the Customs agents had any reason, even though not ordinarily measuring up to ‘probable cause,’ it might, under all of the circumstances, suffice to meet the constitutional test of reasonableness and amount to ‘probable cause.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.