United States v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
468 F.2d 1390 · 1972
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2004
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Chambers v. Maroney · United States v. Ventresca · Preston v. United States · Fine v. United States · United States v. Potts
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all outbuildings and vehicles thereon, including all adjacent properties used by the said Pearl Combs [defendant's father].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“' (Italics ours.) Combs , at 1391; (2) the car was parked 20 feet from the house and where the Combs family generally parked their cars; and (3) the house was located in a remote area. In Graham , at 444, the court pointed out the location of the truck at the end of the driveway not only obstructed the police from executing the warrant,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pourtes
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.