Michael v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2011 · most notably Randolph Central School District v. Aldrich (1992), United States v. Webster (1984)
53 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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
Relies on Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · Land US v. Dollar · Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. · United States v. General Motors Corp.
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the legality of a warrantless installation of a beeper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.