United States v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
672 F.2d 574 · 1982
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably United States v. Pforzheimer (1987), United States v. Moore (1992)
22 federal appellate · 3 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 18 U.S.C. § 472
Relies on Rakas v. Illinois · Chambers v. Maroney · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Elkins v. United States · Preston 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Hass [does] say in dicta that a state may impose ... requirements more strict than those of the Fourth Amendment. Nor do we doubt their general applicability in state proceedings. Nevertheless, these cases applied the Fourth Amendment ... in cases of breach of state criminal codes.”
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.