United States v. Beale’s Empirical Analysis
445 F.2d 977 · 1971
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably United States v. Bradley (1972), United States v. Raines (1976)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 13 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. § 3109
Relies on Ker v. State of California · Miller v. United States · Sabbath v. United States · Harris v. United States · Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the basic principle is, as I deem it to be, “the reverence of the law for the individual’s right of privacy in his house,” [quoting from Sabbath] then * * * we should not hesitate to apply what to me appears to be a clear and logical extension of the doctrine announced in Sabbath. * * * 445 F.2d at 979 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Chavez
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.