United States v. Impson’s Empirical Analysis
482 F.2d 197 · 1973
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably United States v. Webster (1984), United States v. Robinson (1980)
25 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 472
Relies on Jackson v. Denno · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary · Turk v. United States · Joe Edward Smith v. The State of Texas
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. not go to the validity of the conviction. Whether there is probable cause for the search is not a matter with which the jury is concerned or which could in any way influence its decision. The evidence either is, or is not, admissible and that is a determination in the first instance to be made by the trial judge.”
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.