United States v. Castro’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 674 · 1979
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2015 · most notably United States v. Villamonte-Marquez (1983), 134 S. Ct. 2473 - Riley v. Cal. United States (2014)
41 federal appellate · 2 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 19 U.S.C. § 1581 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · United States v. Robinson · United States v. Edwards · Duvall 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]t the time of the boarding, the customs agents possessed sufficient articulable facts to support an inference that the TANILA was involved in smuggling contraband. Boarding to determine the vessel’s identity and documentation was a reasonable response to that suspicion. 596 F.2d at 676 .”
1 later decision 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.