United States ex rel. Beal v. Skaff’s Empirical Analysis
418 F.2d 430 · 1969
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably United States v. Garcia (1989), United States v. Bedford (1975)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Carroll v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Giordenello v. United States · Berger v. New York
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] warrant which antedates the commission of an offense which is relied upon to support its issuance might lack an essential element of judicial control: the requirement that probable cause exist to believe that execution will not precede the commission of the crime or possession of the goods to be seized.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Thus, there was probable cause to believe that the parcel would be delivered 19 minutes from the time of issuance, and probable cause to believe that the warrant, when executed forthwith, could not be executed until after such delivery took place. There was, then, no danger that the property seized would be other than that specified in the affidavit upon which the warrant was issued. . . . Moreover, the nature of the article to be seized — the very real possibility that delay might have resulted in its disposal or concealment — compelled quick action by the magistrate. Confined to these facts, we are of the opinion that the warrant and its execution were constitutionally valid.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a 'stale warrant,' the execution of which is unduly delayed by the police in order to assure the seizure of the goods sought, is invalid”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.