United States v. Cameron’s Empirical Analysis
538 F.2d 254 · 1976
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably United States v. Gonzalez-Rincon (1994), United States v. Vega-Barvo (1984)
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Schmerber v. State of California · Zatsky v. United States · Hoffa v. United States · Henderson v. United States
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a)ny body search, if it is to comport with the reasonableness standard of the fourth amendment, must be conducted with regard to the subject's privacy and be designed to minimize emotional and physical trauma.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[L]ess intrusive means of obtaining the evidence may properly have been considered. In time, the contraband in the rectal cavity might have been eliminated naturally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the absence of a warrant is an important factor in assessing the reasonableness with which the authorities acted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.