United States v. Jit Sun Loo’s Empirical Analysis
478 F.2d 401 · 1973
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1990 · most notably United States v. See (1974), State v. Barnes (1977)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 26 U.S.C. § 7607
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Draper v. United States · American Tobacco Co. 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he circumstances of this case could raise a suspicion in the minds of the customs agents that appellants had or were about to have some connection with the Honolulu defendants, but it is axiomatic that mere suspicion will not justify an arrest....”
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.