United States v. Bunkers’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 1217 · 1975
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2009 · most notably O'CONNOR v. Ortega (1987), United States v. Taketa (1991)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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. § 1709
Relies on Katz v. United States · Mancusi v. DeForte · Examining Board of Engineers v. de Otero · Flick-Reedy Corp. v. Hydro-Line Manufacturing Co. · United States v. Blok
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We express no view ... upon the reasonableness of a [lockersearch] for the fruits of a crime not work connected”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an effective relinquishment of Bunkers' Fourth Amendment immunity in her work connected use of the locker.”
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.