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467 F.2d 359 · 1972

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
June 2019
most recently cited

7 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Smith v. Crouse · Santana v. United States · Santana v. United States · State v. Collins · 337 F. Supp. 114 - Collins v. Wolff

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “whether the District Court erred in finding that a package was mailed as first-class mail and thus under applicable statutes and regulations was not subject to opening and inspection by the Post Office Department without a search warrant.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “package was opened and found to contain an amphetamine tablet.”
    1 later decision 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.