United States v. Ritter’s Empirical Analysis
752 F.2d 435 · 1985
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably United States v. Castillo (1988), United States v. Bonds (1993)
74 federal appellate · 7 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 8 U.S.C. § 1304 (§ 264 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Franks v. Delaware · Ingraham v. Wright · United States v. Watson · Robinson v. State of California
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a request to search must be preceded by Miranda warnings, or that the lack of prior Miranda warnings vitiates a consent to search.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'prejudice' in the sense that the search might not have occurred or would not have been so abrasive if the Rule had been followed”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the rare type of case in which the clause has been used to limit what may be made criminal,”
3 later decisions 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.