Klein v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
472 F.2d 847 · 1973
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably United States v. Fleishman (1982), United States v. Alfonso (1985)
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 19 U.S.C. § 1581 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 482
Relies on Bottone v. United States · Moses Lake Homes, Inc. v. Grant County · Alexander v. United States · Witt v. United States · Ong Way Jong 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [A] border search of a vehicle is subject to a general test of reasonableness but may be made with or without cause or on ‘unsupported’ or ‘mere’ suspicion alone. [Citations omitted.] The mere entry alone into the United States from a foreign country is sufficient reason for a border search. [Citations omitted.]” Klein v. United States, 472 F.2d 847 , 849 (9th Cir. 1973).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere entry alone into the United States from a foreign country is sufficient reason”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“officers or persons authorized to board or search vessels”
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.