United States v. Property Belonging to Talk of the Town Bookstore, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
644 F.2d 1317 · 1981
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Massachusetts v. Sheppard (1984), United States v. Wuagneux (1982)
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Marron v. United States · Stanford v. Texas · United States v. Johnson · Lafayette Academy Inc United States · United States v. Klein
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a) the affidavit accompanies the warrant, and b) the warrant uses suitable words of reference which incorporate the affidavit therein.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the Matter of Seizure of Property Belonging to Talk of the Town Bookstore, Inc., 644 F.2d 1317 , 1318 (9th Cir. 1981) (quoting United States v. Marti, 421 F.2d 1263 , 1268 (2d Cir. 1970)). Accord United States v. McGrew, 122 F.3d 847 , 850 (9th Cir. 1997); United States v. Van Damme, 48 F.3d at 466 (9th Cir. 1995) (since affidavit did not accompany warrant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“seize only the above specified property as described in the Affidavits attached to this search 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.