House v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
411 F.2d 725 · 1969
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1980 · most notably United States v. Bedford (1975), United States v. Harper (1971)
18 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
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 Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · SGRO v. United States · North Carolina Natural Gas Corp. v. McJunkin Corp. · Harris 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly the outer limits of the period within which the search warrant may validly be executed and returned are delineated in [§ 33-414(i)]. And the plain intimation that “forthwith” means something may be perceived from what we said in Seymour, supra; reasonableness in point of time under the circumstances may provide the key. It would seem that there is no automatic touchstone, indeed sufficient compliance with the [statute] may turn upon a showing of prejudice by the accused * * *. (Citations omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(c) Issuance and Contents-[A warrant] shall command the officer to search forthwith the person or place named for the property specified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a necessity for search reasonably referable to a contemporaneous violation of law.”
1 later decision 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.