United States v. Dowell’s Empirical Analysis
724 F.2d 599 · 1984
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably 23 Cal. 4th 529 - People v. Coddington (2000), United States v. Rivera (1987)
28 federal appellate · 3 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 Terry v. Ohio · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Ker v. State of California · Sedillo 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a compelling need for official action and no time to secure a warrant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Law enforcement officials may not deliberately wait for exigent circumstances to arise and then exploit the exception to justify warrantless entry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[A]n objective standard governs the reasonableness of law enforcement officials' belief that exigent circumstances have arisen.'”
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.