Vale v. Louisiana’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
550 federal appellate · 64 district · 1,052 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,926 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Illinois v. Gates (1983), Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973)
550 federal appellate · 64 district · 1,052 state decisions — followed in 47 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 Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States · Chimel v. California
Cited together with Chimel v. California · Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Payton v. New York · Terry v. Ohio
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 1,926 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no suggestion that anyone consented to the search. The officers were not responding to an emergency. They were not in hot pursuit of a fleeing felon. The goods ultimately seized were not in the process of destruction. Nor were they about to be removed from the jurisdiction.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b)elief, however well founded, that an article sought is concealed . . . furnishes no justification for a search of that place without a warrant. And such searches are . . . unlawful notwithstanding facts unquestionably showing probable cause.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“can provide its own `exigent circumstances' so as to justify a warrantless search of the arrestee's house.”
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.