United States v. Chase’s Empirical Analysis
503 F.2d 571 · 1974
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably United States v. Kenny (1981), United States v. Dubrofsky (1978)
41 federal appellate · 4 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 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Shoup Voting Machine Corp. v. Datamedia Computer Service, Inc. · Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist · Dyer v. MacDougall · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Boston & Maine Railroad
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e simply cannot say that the mere removal of a boot is the type of 'serious invasion of privacy' which the real suspicion standard, applicable to strip searches, was designed to limit.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is like one removing an overcoat or a suit jacket--relatively innocuous.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Disbelief of a defendant's own testimony may provide at least a partial basis for a jury's conclusion that the opposite of the testimony is the truth.... But such belief can provide only partial support: there must also be 'other objective evidence on the record which buttresses the fact finder's drawing of the opposite inference.'”
2 later decisions 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.