United States v. Poller’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.2d 911 · 1930
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Terry v. Ohio (1968), Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden (1967)
44 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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 Marron v. United States · Burdeau v. McDowell · Perlman v. United States · Cogen v. United States · Mammoth Oil Co. 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘[T]he real evil aimed at by the Fourth Amendment is the search itself * * *.’ Since the only proper motive which may impel government agents to conduct searches in connection with an arrest is the desire to obtain information which will be helpful in the prosecution of the crime for which the arrest is made, we well recognize that by placing ‘limitations upon the fruit to be gathered [from such a search we] tend to limit the quest itself * ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“limitations upon the fruit to be gathered tend to limit the quest itself . . . .”
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.