United States v. McCain’s Empirical Analysis
677 F.2d 657 · 1982
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably United States v. Garza (1992), United States v. Bonner (1986)
46 federal appellate · 5 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Franks v. Delaware · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory
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.
“'locate and identify the premises with reasonable effort, and whether there is any reasonable probability that another premise might be mistakenly searched.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where one part of the warrant description is imprecise but the description has other parts which identify the place to be searched with particularity, searches have been routinely upheld.... Here, whatever the warrant lacked in accuracy as to street address, it accurately and with particularity targeted [the defendant's] 'offices' and the building premises to be searched.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Searches may be characterized as federal in character if there is significant federal involvement in the search.”
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.