United States v. Sklar’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
February 2006
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Florida v. Royer · Jones v. United States
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not justified when it is asserted with respect to contraband”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he canine sniff is sui generis. We are aware of no other investigative procedure that is so limited in the manner in which the information is obtained and in the content of the information revealed by the procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.