United States v. Silva’s Empirical Analysis
554 F.3d 13 · 2009
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Rivera-Morales (2020), United States v. Ackerman (2016)
18 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Maine District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1028 (Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act of 1998) · 18 U.S.C. § 1028A · 18 U.S.C. § 1347 (§ 242 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 929 · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · United States v. Olano · Franks v. Delaware · Ornelas v. United States · Holland 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the extent of the government's role in instigating or participating in the search, its intent and the degree of control it exercises over the search and the private party, and the extent to which the private party aims primarily to help the government or to serve its own interests.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“potentially relevant in deciding whether a private party acts as a government [entity].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“initially agreed with the instruction but later objected”
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.