United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
730 F.2d 1052 · 1984
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably State v. Brown (1992), Simmons v. Poe (1995)
19 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 881 (§ 511 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Cooper v. State of California · United States v. Giordano · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc. · Chlorine Institute, Inc. v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration · James 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is well settled that: when a search warrant is based partially on tainted evidence and partially on evidence arising from independent sources, if the lawfully obtained information amounts to probable cause and would have justified issuance of the warrant apart from the tainted information, the evidence seized pursuant to the warrant is admitted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the automobile was used to facilitate [the crime] ... was not 'necessary and essential to the judgment' on the merits.”
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.