United States v. Pratt’s Empirical Analysis
645 F.2d 89 · 1981
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 9 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Harris v. Champion (1994), Burkett v. Cunningham (1987)
29 federal appellate · 9 district · 12 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Delaware v. Prouse · Oregon v. Mathiason · Beckwith v. United States · Bifulco 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny person required to submit to a secondary customs search may apprehend some increased level of official suspicion[,] ... this perception ... is not sufficient by itself to apply coercive pressures equivalent to custodial questioning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in light of the remedies that appellant [sought]: reversal of judgment and either entry of judgment for him or new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Lamentable though it may be, such delays are all too common.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.