United States v. Swayne’s Empirical Analysis
700 F.2d 467 · 1983
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably United States v. Noibi (1986), Driebel v. City of Milwaukee (2002)
24 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Dunaway v. New York · McCray v. 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The point of [appellant's] departure and destination [also Miami--known to be a major source of supply for illegal drugs], and most importantly the speed with which he intended to return, belies a belief that this was an innocent traveler”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the courts have recognized that in certain circumstances a person's choice of whom to associate with, as well as the nature of that association, must be taken into account when assessing probable cause”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]lthough the evidence must be consistent with guilt, it need not be inconsistent with every other reasonable hypothesis.”
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.