United States v. Santana’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.3d 1 · 1993
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 41 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably United States v. Sepulveda (1993), United States v. Voigt (1996)
79 federal appellate · 41 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. § 3731
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Rakas v. Illinois · Rochin v. People of California · Moran v. Burbine · United States v. Russell
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]arefully considered statements of the Supreme Court, even if technically dictum, must be accorded great weight and should be treated as authoritative when, as in this instance, badges of reliability abound”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“redressable through the utilization of less drastic disciplinary tools”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]aken together, [ United States v. ]Payner , [ 447 U.S. 727 , 735, 100 S.Ct. 2439 , 65 L.Ed.2d 468 (1980),] Hasting , and Bank of Nova Scotia form a trilogy admonishing federal courts to refrain from using the supervisory power to conform executive conduct to judicially preferred norms by dismissing charges, absent cognizable prejudice to a particular defendant.”
4 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.