United States v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
626 F.2d 22 · 1980
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 7 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Horton ex rel. Horton v. Goose Creek Independent School District (1982), Doe v. Renfrow (1980)
58 federal appellate · 7 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Adams v. Williams · Arkansas v. Sanders · Bullock v. United States
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(n)o interest protected by the Fourth Amendment was invaded by forwarding the packages the following day rather than the day they were deposited.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“This is not a case in which we need confront the thorny problem of an indiscriminate, dragnet-type sniffing expedition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“. [Suspicious circumstances] coupled with the agents’ previous observation of defendants and the information from the Florida deputy sheriff were not enough to establish probable cause, either for an arrest or for a search of defendants’ luggage, but were certainly enough to give the agents reasonable suspicion to believe that the suitcases contained contraband.”
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.