United States v. John Manuel Solis’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably 123 Wash. 2d 173 - State v. Young (1994), Horton ex rel. Horton v. Goose Creek Independent School District (1982)
49 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Katz v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Johnson v. United States · Olmstead v. United States · Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc.
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he investigation was not indiscriminate.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““Generally evidence acquired by unaided human senses from without a protected area is not considered an illegal invasion of privacy, but is usable under doctrines of plain view- or open view or the equivalent. Odors so detected may furnish evidence of probable cause of ‘most persuasive character,’ Johnson v. United States, 333 U.S. 10, 13 , 68 S.Ct. 367 , 92 L.Ed. 436 (1948), ‘physical fact[s] indicative of possible crime,’ Taylor v. United States, 286 U.S. 1, 6 , 52 S.Ct. 466 , 76 L.Ed. 951 (1932).””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Dogs because of their keen olfactory sense, have long been used to assist police in search and rescue missions . Detection of contraband is a similar and related task. The recent proliferation of crimes involving transportation of drugs and explosives has led naturally to the training of dogs ... to detect the presence of such contraband.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.