United States v. Gorman’s Empirical Analysis
355 F.2d 151 · 1965
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 1 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Rawlings v. Kentucky (1980), Ybarra v. Illinois (1980)
78 federal appellate · 1 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 17 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. § 2113 · 28 U.S.C. § 2111
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Escobedo v. Illinois · Johnson v. United States · Ker v. State of California
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[acceptance of this contention would mean that expressions of consent could relieve officers of the need of obtaining a warrant only when the speaker was not aware that the search would disclose damaging evidence — a fact usually not within the officers’ knowledge. Such a ruling would almost destroy the principle permitting a search on consent but would enable experienced criminals to lay traps for officers who, relying on the words of consent, failed to secure a search warrant that would have been theirs for the asking.” Id. at 159 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * The rule that officers making a valid arrest of one or more occupants of an automobile can, without a warrant, then and there search the car including the trunk is reasonable not only because of necessity in many cases but because a speedy search may disclose information useful in tracking down accomplices still on the move.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The combination of facts known to the agents . . . would together have constituted reasonable cause for arresting Roche prior to the search of his luggage; each fact augmented the probative force of the others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Raffone v. Adams
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.