United States v. Crews’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
383 federal appellate · 70 district · 1,162 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,902 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Payton v. New York (1980), Nix v. Williams (1984)
383 federal appellate · 70 district · 1,162 state decisions — followed in 44 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 Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Wade · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Manson v. Brathwaite
Cited together with Wong Sun v. United States · Brown v. Illinois · Frisbie v. Collins · Payton v. New York · Terry v. Ohio
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 1,902 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An illegal arrest, without more, has never been viewed as a bar to subsequent prosecution, nor as a defense to a valid conviction.”
102 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether, granting establishment of the primary illegality, the evidence to which instant objection is made has been come at by exploitation of that illegality.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In short, the Fourth Amendment violation in this case yielded nothing of evidentiary value that the police did not already have in their grasp. Rather, respondent's unlawful arrest served merely to link together two extant ingredients in his identification.”
5 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.