United States v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
606 F.2d 853 · 1979
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 4 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Davis (1991), United States v. Delgadillo-Velasquez (1988)
77 federal appellate · 4 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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
Relies on Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Simmons v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a substantial risk of harm to the persons involved or to the law enforcement process would arise if the police were to delay a search until a warrant could be obtained.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“'requiring a reasonable belief, in light of the officer's experience and the practical considerations of everyday life,' that contraband or evidence would be found in the place to be searched.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.