United States v. Dart’s Empirical Analysis
747 F.2d 263 · 1984
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Hancock v. Dodson (1992), United States v. Gonzalez (1985)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 26 U.S.C. § 5841 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Katz v. United States · Chimel v. California · Rakas v. Illinois · Schmerber v. State of California · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unquestionably Officer Johnson’s initial warrantless entry into Unit 69 did not violate the fourth amendment. The warehouse had clearly been burglarized, and Johnson had reason to believe that the perpetrators were still on the premises. Personal safety, therefore, required a cursory look into the burglarized units.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Metz“Searches conducted outside the judicial process, without prior approval by judge or magistrate, are per se unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment — subject only to a few specifically established and well-delineated exceptions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Johnson’s own actions demonstrate that if exigent circumstances existed when he first entered the warehouse, they had long since evaporated by the time the [evidence was discovered].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Metz
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.