United States v. Maher’s Empirical Analysis
645 F.2d 780 · 1981
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably United States v. Espinosa (1987), United States v. McLernon (1984)
53 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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. § 3501
Relies on Franks v. Delaware · Spinelli v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · United States v. Ventresca · Draper 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Maher's activities were similar to the modus operandi of persons conducting counter surveillance while transporting drugs”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'if American law enforcement officials participated in the foreign search, or if the foreign authorities actually conducting the search were acting as agents for their American counterparts, the exclusionary rule can be invoked.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”
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.