Shaffer v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
523 F.2d 175 · 1975
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1999
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Terry v. Ohio · Boyd v. United States · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable nexus between the item to be seized and the criminal behavior alleged.”
1 later decision 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.