United States v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 1078 · 1983
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2014
8 federal appellate · 4 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 ITT Gilfillan v. Clayton · United States v. Knotts · Dames & Moore v. Regan · Horton ex rel. Horton v. Goose Creek Independent School District · United States v. Burns
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.
“[t]he odor emanating from even a closed object is accessible to the public foreclosing an expectation of privacy”
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.