United States v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
522 F.2d 296 · 1975
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Mary Beth v. City of Chicago Tikalsky (1983), Fuller v. Mg Jewelry (1991)
55 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 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 Schmerber v. State of California · Draper v. United States · United States v. Edwards · Babich v. United States · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no piercing or probing of Klein's skin, nor forced entry beyond the surface of his body.”
3 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.