United States v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
481 F.2d 605 · 1973
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2017
6 federal appellate ·
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. § 1461
Relies on Roth v. United States · Jacobellis v. Ohio · Kois v. Wisconsin · United States v. Limehouse · Kahm 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Furthermore, it is now settled that on review of First Amendment cases, the proper course for an appellate court to take is: to make “an independent con stitutional judgment on the facts of the case as to whether the material involved is constitutionally protected.””
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.