United States v. Blue’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
388 federal appellate · 52 district · 224 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 933 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably United States v. Jorn (1971), Pennsylvania v. Ritchie (1987)
388 federal appellate · 52 district · 224 state decisions — followed in 35 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 26 U.S.C. § 6213 · 26 U.S.C. § 6321 (Federal Tax Lien Act of 1966) · 26 U.S.C. § 7201
Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Weeks v. United States · Costello v. United States · Nardone v. United States · Mallory 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 933 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our numerous precedents ordering the exclusion of such illegally obtained evidence assume implicitly that the remedy does not extend to barring the prosecution altogether. So drastic a step might advance marginally some of the ends served by exclusionary rules, but it would also increase to an intolerable degree interference with the public interest in having the guilty brought to book.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“our precedents indicate this would not be a basis for abating the prosecution pending a new indictment, let alone barring it altogether. See Costello v. United States, 350 U.S. 359 , 76 S.Ct. 406 , 100 L.Ed. 397 ; Lawn v. United States, 355 U.S. 339 , 78 S.Ct. 311 , 2 L.Ed. 2d 321 ; 8 Wigmore, Evidence § 2184a, at 40 (McNaughton rev. 1961).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“tainted evidence was presented to the grand jury.”
3 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.