United States v. Allard’s Empirical Analysis
600 F.2d 1301 · 1979
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably United States v. Morgan (1984), United States v. Wright (2000)
45 federal appellate · 6 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Johnson v. United States · Stone v. Powell · Silverthorne Lumber Co. 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Government must prove that particular evidence or testimony is not fruit of the poisonous tree, but a defendant has the initial burden of establishing a factual nexus between the illegality and the challenged evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he search cannot be justified solely because an agent knows that there is contraband on the premises.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the threatened destruction of evidence may create exigent circumstances to justify a warrantless search, ... the search cannot be justified solely because an agent knows that there is contraband on the premises.”
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.