United States v. Veillette’s Empirical Analysis
778 F.2d 899 · 1985
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 25 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Boroff v. Tully (1987), United States v. Figueroa (1987)
61 federal appellate · 25 district · 8 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)
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Leon · Franks v. Delaware · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether the circumstances of a case fall into one of the emergency conditions characterized as exigent circumstances, the court must consider: the gravity of the underlying offense; whether delay poses a threat to police or the public safety; whether there is a great likelihood that evidence will be destroyed if there is a delay until a warrant can be obtained.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he [illegally obtained evidence] should be set to one side . . . and the remaining content of the affidavit examined to determine whether there was probable cause to search, apart from the tainted averments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no reasonable view of the evidence supports”
2 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.