United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 648 · 1986
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably United States v. Leake (1993), United States v. Weaver (1996)
51 federal appellate · 16 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
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Katz v. United States · United States v. Leon · Simmons v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the 20th day of August, 1984, at approximately 5:00 p.m., the affiant received information from a reliable informant that Eric Helton was producing marijuana at his residence. 47 Acting on the information received, affiant conducted the following independent investigation: On August 21, 1984 at 11:30 A.M. Detective William Stweart [sic] observed a marijuana plant growing beside the residence of Eric Helton.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a reasonably well-trained officer would have known that the search was illegal despite the magistrate's authorization.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.