United States v. Good’s Empirical Analysis

780 F.2d 773 · 1986

Citation profile

cited by 55 later decisions

states following

July 2019

most recently cited

41 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably United States v. Echegoyen (1986), United States v. Vasquez (1988)

41 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291

Relies on Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Texas v. Brown · Sedillo v. United States · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · United States v. McConney

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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“Exigent circumstances alone ... are insufficient as the government must also show that a warrant could not have been obtained in time.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Fisher v. City of San Jose · Demaree v. Pederson
“exigent circumstances as those circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to believe that entry (or other relevant prompt action) was necessary to prevent physical harm to the officers or other persons, the destruction of relevant evidence, the escape of the suspect, or some other consequence improperly frustrating legitimate law enforcement efforts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Fisher v. City of San Jose · Doleman v. State
“Obtaining a telephone warrant is not a simple procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. United States v. Mickle

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.