United States v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
424 F.2d 942 · 1970
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1993
7 federal appellate · 4 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 Terry v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Ker v. State of California · Henry 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] lack of probable cause cannot be made up in hindsight by a hypothetical variation in the basis on which a search was conducted,”
2 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.