United States v. McClain’s Empirical Analysis
444 F.3d 556 · 2005
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Sykes v. Anderson (2010), Goodwin ex rel. Nall v. City of Painesville (2015)
21 federal appellate · 10 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Brinegar v. United States · Payton v. New York · 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]ore importantly, the officers who sought and executed the search warrants were not the same officers who performed the initial warrantless search, and [the] warrant affidavit fully disclosed to a neutral and detached magistrate the circumstances surrounding initial warrantless search.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]robable cause is defined as reasonable grounds for belief, supported by less than prima facie proof but more than mere suspicion. Under this "flexible, common-sense standard," the establishment of probable cause requires only a probability or substantial chance of criminal activity, not an actual showing of such activity. However, the "mere possibility" that a crime could be occurring within a home is not sufficient to justify a warrantless search; the police must have an objectively reasonable basis for their belief that a crime is being committed. Likewise, mere speculation that a crime could be occurring is insufficient to establish probable cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. PBP v. State · P.B.P. v. State“Because the officers who sought and executed the search warrants acted with good faith, and because the facts surrounding the initial warrantless search were close enough to the line of validity to make the executing officers’ belief in the validity of the search warrants objectively reasonable, we conclude that despite the Fourth Amendment violation, the Leon exception bars application of the exclusionary rule in this case.”
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.