United States v. Bramble’s Empirical Analysis
641 F.2d 681 · 1981
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably United States v. Vizcarra-Martinez (1995), United States v. Blankenship (1985)
27 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. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Washington v. Willingham · Enriquez v. United States · United States v. Segovia
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here entrapment is in issue, 'similarity' of prior drug offenses exists if the earlier conviction tends to prove that defendant was engaged in illegal operations in some way similar to those charged in the indictment, even if the drugs involved may be different.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he record indicates that [Bramble] had a pit bulldog in the car and was greatly concerned about its safety____ The officers were prepared to defer search until ... a warrant had been obtained____ [I]t is apparent that [Bramble’s] consent to search was given in order that he might hold the dog while the search took place, and thus avoid the need for the officers to proceed to a warrant search in his absence. It does not lie with him now to complain that the search was without 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.