United States v. Alvarez’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.2d 879 · 1987
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably United States v. Castillo (1988), United States v. Sitton (1992)
59 federal appellate · 3 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 Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · United States v. Leon · Aguilar v. Texas
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“justified a departure from the normal procedure of obtaining a warrant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]ur decision here ... requires the government either to attempt, in good faith, to secure a warrant or to present evidence explaining why a telephone warrant was unavailable or impractical.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“physical evidence and statements obtained as a result of such an arrest must be suppressed,”
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.