United States v. Acklen’s Empirical Analysis
690 F.2d 70 · 1982
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably State v. Girdler (1983), Stone v. City of Stow (1992)
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the facts and circumstances within the officers' knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information are sufficient in themselves to warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that certain items are the fruits, instrumentalities, or evidence of crime and that these items are presently to be found at a certain place.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the scope of the search and the manner in which it is conducted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the evidence seized pursuant to an administrative inspection warrant ... should be suppressed ... if the primary purpose of the administrative inspection search was to obtain evidence for criminal prosecution.”
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.