United States v. Bourbon’s Empirical Analysis
819 F.2d 856 · 1987
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Boykin v. State (1991), Commonwealth v. Brzezinski (1989)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 · Jones v. United States · Roviaro v. United States · McCray v. State of Illinois · Santoni v. United States
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had a 'substantial basis for ... conclud[ing]' that probable cause existed.”
1 later decision 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.