United States v. Arrasmith’s Empirical Analysis
557 F.2d 1093 · 1977
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2018
7 federal appellate · 3 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · United States v. Martinez-Fuerte · Almeida-Sanchez v. United States · United States v. Ortiz
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But triers of fact are also free to employ their common sense and to take into account the lessons of common, ordinary experience. The district court did not take improper judicial notice by recognizing that odors are difficult of precise description and by accepting the agent’s testimony that marijuana smelled like marijuana.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The odor of marijuana provided probable cause, authorizing the search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Douglas v. State
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.