United States v. Rahn’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.2d 290 · 1975
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 7 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Kirk (1976), United States v. Freeman (1982)
77 federal appellate · 7 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 United States v. Ventresca · SGRO v. United States · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · New York Stock Exchange v. Legate · United States v. Johnson
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The affidavit need not contain information providing certainty that the objects sought will be found as a result of the search. It is only necessary that “the facts and circumstances described in the affidavit would warrant a man of reasonable caution to believe that the articles sought were located” at the place where it was proposed to search.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘The situation here does not differ markedly from other cases wherein this court and others, albeit usually without discussion, have upheld searches although the nexus between the items to be seized and the place to be searched rested not on direct observation . . . but on the type of crime, the nature of the missing items, the extent of the suspect’s opportunity for concealment, and normal inferences as to where a criminal would be likely to hide stolen property.’ ” 511 F.2d at 293 (quoting United States v. Lucarz, 430 F.2d 1051 [9th Cir. 1970]).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not determined by merely counting the number of days between the time of the facts relied upon and the warrant's issuance.”
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.