United States v. Baswell’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 755 · 1986
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably United States v. Rodriguez (1989), United States v. Wajda (1987)
27 federal appellate · 5 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Matlock · Oregon v. Mathiason · Miller v. Fenton · Stoner v. 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mutual use of the property by persons generally having joint access or control for most purposes, so that it is reasonable to recognize that any of the co-inhabitants has the right to permit the inspection in his own right and that the others have assumed the risk that one of their number might permit the common area to be searched.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“possession of even a relatively small quantity of cocaine is sufficient to show intent to distribute the drug when there is other evidence of such an intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“consent may be valid under an agency theory of authority”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fredericks v. Wright
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.