United States v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
671 F.2d 46 · 1982
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2008 · most notably United States v. Villamonte-Marquez (1983), United States v. Hensel (1983)
40 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 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 14 U.S.C. § 143 · 14 U.S.C. § 89 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 19 U.S.C. § 1401 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1581 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1587 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1701 · 19 U.S.C. § 1711 (Anti-Smuggling Act)
Relies on Rideout v. United States · Frisbie v. Collins · Michel v. United States · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Ker v. People of the State of Illinois
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 Coast Guard may make inquiries, examinations, inspections, searches, seizures, and arrests upon the high seas and waters over which the United States has jurisdiction, for the prevention, detection, and suppression of violations of laws of the United States. For such purposes, commissioned, warrant, and petty officers may at any time go on board of any vessel subject to the jurisdiction, or to the operation of any law, of the United States, address inquiries to those on board, examine the ship’s documents and papers, and examine, inspect, and search the vessel and use all necessary force to compel compliance. When from such inquiries, examination, inspection, or search it appears that a breach of the laws of the United States rendering a person liable to arrest is being, or has been committed, by any person, such person shall be arrested or, if escaping to shore, shall be immediately pursued and arrested on shore, or other lawful and appropriate action shall be taken; or, if it shall appear that a breach of the laws of the United States has been committed so as to render such vessel, or the merchandise, or any part thereof, on board of, or brought into the United States by, such vessel, liable to forfeiture, or so as to render such vessel liable to a fine or penalty and if necessary to secure such fine or penalty, such vessel or such merchandise, or both, shall be seized.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in addition to permitting proper administrative searches, the fourth amendment allows government officers, who are otherwise authorized, to board and search a vessel on the high seas should they have reasonable and articulable grounds for suspecting that it is engaged in criminal activity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he fact that the crew bunked in the cabin below would not render the cabin generally off limits to searching officers on a [52-foot sloop] where virtually all shipboard functions might be expected to take place in the cabin area, including the stowage of some cargo.”
3 later decisions 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.