Brewer v. Wolff’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 787 · 1976
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2020
8 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Carroll v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For constitutional purposes, we see no difference between on the one hand seizing and holding a car before presenting the probable cause issue to a magistrate and on the other hand carrying out an immediate search without a warrant. Given probable cause to search, either course is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“General proscription of Fourth Amendment is against unreasonable, not warrantless, searches.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Donald
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.