United States v. Ader’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 2000
2 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 19 U.S.C. § 482
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Simmons v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Rakas v. Illinois · Johnson 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The many difficulties that attend the attempt to intercept contraband and to apprehend increasingly mobile and sophisticated smugglers at the borders of a country have by necessity led to this exception. Therefore, some searches by Customs officials, although conducted at points physically away from an actual border and removed from the precise time of importation, may nevertheless be treated as border searches.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the 'extended border search' under which 'border' is given a geographically flexible reading within limits of reason related to the underlying constitutional concern to protect against unreasonable searches”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.