United States v. Spanier’s Empirical Analysis
597 F.2d 139 · 1977
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
November 1987
most recently cited
13 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. McLaughlin · United States v. Grummel
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)t was not only prudent to check the house for additional confederates, it would have been careless not to do so. While in the house, the officers had no duty to shut their eyes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Owen 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.