United States v. Briddle’s Empirical Analysis
436 F.2d 4 · 1970
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently June 1998 · most notably United States v. James (1976), United States v. Harflinger (1970)
49 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Chimel v. California
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has long been settled that objects falling in the plain view of an officer who has a right to be in the position to have that view are subject to seizure and may be introduced in evidence. Ker v. California, 374 U.S. 23 , 42-43 [ 83 S.Ct. 1623 , 1634, 1635, 10 L.Ed.2d 726 ] (1963); United States v. Lee, 274 U.S. 559 [ 47 S.Ct. 746 , 71 L.Ed. 1202 ] (1927); Hester v. United States, 265 U.S. 57 [ 44 S.Ct. 445 , 68 L.Ed. 898 ] (1924).” Harris v. United States, 390 U.S. 234 , 236, 88 S.Ct. 992 , 19 L.Ed.2d 1067 (1968). Coolidge v. New Hampshire, supra, 403 U.S. at 464, 473 , 91 S.Ct. 2022 ; United States v. Briddle, 436 F.2d 4 , 7 (8th Cir. 1970), cert, denied, 401 U.S. 921 , 91 S.Ct. 910 , 27 L.Ed.2d 24 (1971); United States v. Molkenbur, 430 F.2d 563 , 566 (8th Cir.), cert, denied, 400 U.S. 952 , 91 S.Ct. 244 , 27 L.Ed.2d 25 (1970); Searles v. State of Minnesota, 428 F.2d 1188 , 1189 (8th Cir. 1970).”
4 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.