United States v. Newbern’s Empirical Analysis
731 F.2d 744 · 1984
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably United States v. Tobin (1991), United States v. Rosenthal (1986)
53 federal appellate · 13 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Payton v. New York · Berger v. United States · Smith v. Phillips · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co.
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law is clear that law enforcement officers are prohibited from making a warrantless and nonconsensual entry into a suspect's home in order to make a felony arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McClish v. Nugent
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.