United States v. Mackey’s Empirical Analysis
626 F.2d 684 · 1980
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2007 · most notably Robbins v. California (1981), United States v. Martino (1981)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Rakas v. Illinois · Chambers v. Maroney
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.
“(a) paper bag is among the least private of containers. It is easily torn, it cannot be latched, and, to a greater extent than most containers, its contents can frequently be discerned merely by holding or feeling the container.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“did not possess a sufficient privacy interest in the paper bag to justify imposing the warrant requirement of (United States v.) Chadwick (1977, 433 U.S. 1 , 97 S.Ct. 2476, 53 L.Ed.2d 538) and Sanders.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(A) person's expectations of privacy in personal luggage are substantially greater than in an automobile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.