Brigham City v. Stuart’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
595 federal appellate · 227 district · 944 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,562 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010)
595 federal appellate · 227 district · 944 state decisions — followed in 45 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 · Graham v. Connor · Payton v. New York · Whren v. United States · Ker v. State of California
Cited together with Payton v. New York · Mincey v. Arizona · Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Pearson v. Callahan
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 2,562 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the ultimate touchstone of the Fourth Amendment is 'reasonableness.'”
48 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[L]aw enforcement officers may enter a home without a warrant to render emergency assistance to an injured occupant or to protect an occupant from imminent injury.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One exigency obviating the requirement of a warrant is the need to assist persons who are seriously injured or threatened with such injury.”
15 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.