Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
1,148 federal appellate · 264 district · 1,794 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,372 later decisions (163 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Terry v. Ohio (1968), United States v. Leon (1984)
1,148 federal appellate · 264 district · 1,794 state decisions — followed in 50 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 · Schmerber v. State of California · Johnson v. United States · Boyd v. United States · Ker v. State of California
Cited together with See v. City of Seattle · Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Marshall v. Barlow's, Inc. · United States v. Biswell
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 4,372 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
149 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable legislative or administrative standards”
92 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“balancing the need to search against the invasion which the search entails.”
80 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.