United States v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 41 · 1980
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 8 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Steagald v. United States (1981), United States v. Cresta (1987)
37 federal appellate · 8 district · 15 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
Relies on Payton v. New York · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · United States v. Watson · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“compelling necessity for immediate action that w[ould] not brook the delay of obtaining a warrant.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In terms that apply equally to seizures of property and to seizures of persons, the Fourth Amendment has drawn a firm line at the entrance to the house. Absent exigent circumstances, that threshold may not reasonably be crossed without a warrant.”
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.