United States v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 280 · 1979
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Sage (1987), State v. Eady (1999)
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 14 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 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Mincey v. Arizona · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o citizen should reasonably expect that . . . any sort of public officer may thereafter invade his home for purposes unrelated to the initial intrusion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bassett · Mazen v. Seidel“by leading a court to speculate about what `may' or `might' have been the circumstances surrounding the warrantless search”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““There, however, the court held that the police who make the second entry must restrict their later intrusion to the scope of the initial invasion * * *. [Brand, supra,] at 1317, n. 9 . This, of course, was also the holding in Michigan v. Tyler [1978], * * U.S. [499,] at 511 * * *. See also Mincey v. Arizona, 437 U.S. 385, 393 , 98 S.Ct. 2408 , 57 L. Ed. 2d 290 (1978); Cupp v. Murphy, 412 U.S. 291, 295 , 93 S. Ct. 2000, 2003 , 36 L. Ed. 2d 900 (1973) (‘[T]he scope of the warrantless search must be commensurate with the rationale that excepts the search from the warrant requirement.’).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sage
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.