United States v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 1382 · 1980
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably Thomas v. Arn (1986), United States v. Knotts (1983)
63 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Katz v. United States · Franks v. Delaware · Rakas v. Illinois · United States v. Chadwick · United States v. Raddatz
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[h]is failure to object is a waiver of his right to appeal the recommendations contained in the report”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here arguably is a right to enjoy the use of goods without the possibility of uninvited monitoring that [even] an unactivated beeper would create.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A warrant may be invalidated for misstatements in an affidavit only if the misrepresentations were material and intentional.”
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.