United States v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis
468 F.2d 68 · 1972
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2008 · most notably Almeida-Sanchez v. United States (1973), United States v. Peltier (1975)
49 federal appellate · 7 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3501 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952 · 21 U.S.C. § 960 · 8 U.S.C. § 1357 (§ 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Barker v. Wingo · Carroll v. United States · Brinegar 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A border patrol agent who has learned how to identify marijuana by sight or by its odor has probable cause to search and seize and to effect arrests upon discovery of marijuana in a vehicle.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Immigration officers and U.S. Customs Agents are not limited to investigate solely for the presence of illegal aliens.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in relation to the circumstances as they would have appeared to prudent, cautious and trained police officers.”
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.