United States v. Eagon’s Empirical Analysis
707 F.2d 362 · 1982
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2008
11 federal appellate ·
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 Terry v. Ohio · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Arra · United States v. Piner · United States v. Streifel
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e should ... look to the scope of the boarding activity under the particular circumstances involved. Those living on their boats have a greater expectation of privacy at night.... The boarding in this case, however, involved no invasion of sleeping quarters.”); United States v. Streifel, 665 F.2d 414 , 423 (2d Cir.1981) (stating that, in the context of the scope of searches of a ship,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.