United States v. Ferrone’s Empirical Analysis
438 F.2d 381 · 1971
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably United States v. Espinosa (1987), Government of Virgin Islands v. Gereau (1974)
37 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 20 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 26 U.S.C. § 7203 · 26 U.S.C. § 7262 · 26 U.S.C. § 7602
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Kotteakos v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Ventresca
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[sjoeiety has an interest in securing for its members the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. Society also has an interest, however, in the orderly settlement of disputes between citizens and their government; it has an especially strong interest in minimizing the use of violent self-help in the resolution of those disputes. We think a proper accommodation of those interests requires that a person claiming to be aggrieved by a search conducted by a peace officer pursuant to an allegedly invalid warrant test that claim in a court of law and not forcibly resist the execution of the warrant at the place of search. The development of legal safeguards in the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment fields in recent years has provided the victim of an unlawful search with realistic and orderly legal alternatives to physical resistance.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hatton · Elson v. State““the circumstances . . . would be such a provocation to a reasonable man that the seriousness of the offense of resistance ought to be mitigated as a result of such provocation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“John Doe, a white male with black wavy hair and stocky build observed using the telephone in Apartment 4-C, 1806 Patricia Lane, East McKeesport, Pennsylvania”
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.