United States v. Bethea’s Empirical Analysis
598 F.2d 331 · 1979
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Commonwealth v. Maxwell (1984), State v. Copeland (1987)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3109
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Matlock · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. · Sabbath 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.
“When . . . a district court denies a motion to suppress evidence, without making or being requested to make findings of fact, the result will be upheld on appeal if any reasonable view of the evidence, looked at in the light most favorable to the government, will sustain the denial.”
2 later decisions 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.