United States v. Erb’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 412 · 1979
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably United States v. Wicks (1993), United States v. Parra (1993)
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Gerstein v. Pugh · Sedillo v. United States · United States v. Watson
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e must look to the facts and circumstances existing in the instant case at the time the DEA agents made the warrantless entry and effected the arrests in order to determine whether probable cause and exigent circumstances justified that action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ashe
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.