Stanford v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
557 federal appellate · 172 district · 666 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,807 later decisions (111 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably United States v. Leon (1984), Chimel v. California (1969)
557 federal appellate · 172 district · 666 state decisions — followed in 44 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Boyd v. United States · Ker v. State of California · Wolf v. People of the State of Colorado
Cited together with Marron v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Andresen v. Maryland · United States v. Ventresca · Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property
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 1,807 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The requirement that warrants shall particularly describe the things to be seized makes general searches under them impossible and prevents the seizure of one thing under a warrant describing another. As to what is to be taken, nothing is left to the discretion of the officer executing the warrant.”
115 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The word “books” in the context of a phrase like “books and records” has, of course, a quite different meaning. A “book” which is no more than a ledger of an unlawful enterprise thus might stand on a quite different constitutional footing from the books involved in the present case.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“books, records, pamphlets, cards, receipts, lists, memoranda, pictures, recordings and other written instruments concerning the Communist Party of Texas.”
5 later decisions 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.