Dalia v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
357 federal appellate · 90 district · 153 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 921 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati (1986), Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979)
357 federal appellate · 90 district · 153 state decisions — followed in 28 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Dalia (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Katz v. United States · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Mapp v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 921 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, warrants must be issued by neutral, disinterested magistrates. Second, those seeking the warrant must demonstrate to the magistrate their probable cause to believe that the evidence sought will aid in a particular apprehension or conviction for a particular offense. Finally, warrants must particularly describe the things to be seized, as well as the place to be searched.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is generally left to the discretion of the executing officers to determine the details of how best to proceed with the performance of a search authorized by warrant-subject of course to the general Fourth Amendment protection `against unreasonable searches and seizures.'”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he manner in which a [search] warrant is executed is subject to later judicial review as to its reasonableness”
7 later decisions 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.