United States v. Britt’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.2d 1052 · 1975
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably United States v. Evans (1978), United States v. Gonzalez (1996)
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 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
Relies on Jones v. United States · Mancusi v. DeForte · Henzel v. United States · Robertson v. Federal Crop Ins.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a demonstrated nexus between the area searched and the work space of the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a man chooses to avail himself of the privilege of doing business as a corporation, even though he is its sole sha reholder, he may not vicariously take on the privilege of the corporation under the Fourth Amendment; documents which he could have protected from seizure, if they had been his own, may be used against him, no matter how they were obtained from the corporation. Its wrongs are not his wrongs; its immunity is not his immunity. (5)”
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.