United States v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 251 · 1980
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2019 · most notably Baldwin v. United States (1981), United States v. Hardin (2008)
15 federal appellate · 4 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. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Katz v. United States · Hoffa v. United States · Lewis v. United States · Weatherford v. Bursey · Wingo v. Wedding
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n [undercover] agent may legitimately gain entrance into a house by misrepresenting his identity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“precedent to support the suggestion that the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement agencies to seek prior judicial approval in the form of a warrant before utilizing an undercover agent.”
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.