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United States v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis

715 F.3d 1069 · 2013

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
8
states following
June 2025
most recently cited

15 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 924

Relies on Katz v. United States · Crawford v. Washington · Davis v. Washington · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · California v. Acevedo

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[c]ommercial GPS units are widely available, and most modern cell phones have GPS tracking capabilities. Courts routinely rely on GPS technology to supervise individuals on probation or supervised release, and, in assessing the Fourth Amendment constraints associated with GPS tracking, courts generally have assumed the technology's accuracy.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “'merely [a] computer printout[] of information generated by accepted technology.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “created . . . for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact at trial”
    2 later decisions 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.