United States v. Veatch’s Empirical Analysis
674 F.2d 1217 · 1981
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 3 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably United States v. Rewald (1989), United States v. Black (1985)
68 federal appellate · 3 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Faretta v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Rakas v. Illinois · Sedillo v. United States · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he existence of a right to be present depends upon a conclusion that absence could, under some set of circumstances, be harmful. Due process does not assure “the privilege of presence when presence would be useless, or the benefit but a shadow.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“once a private search is completed, the subsequent involvement of government agents does not retroactively transform the original intrusion into a governmental search.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the entire record that was before the district court”
2 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.