United States v. Medlin’s Empirical Analysis
842 F.2d 1194 · 1988
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 22 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably 15 Cal. 4th 1229 - People v. Bradford (1997), United States v. Frost (1997)
68 federal appellate · 22 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 18 U.S.C. § 3105
Relies on United States v. Leon · United States v. Mendenhall · Bumper v. North Carolina · Waller v. Georgia · Marron 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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When law enforcement officers grossly exceed the scope of a search warrant in seizing property, the particularity requirement is undermined and a valid warrant is transformed into a general warrant thereby requiring suppression of all evidence seized under that warrant.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]ven evidence which is properly seized pursuant to a warrant must be suppressed if the officers executing the warrant exhibit `flagrant disregard' for its terms.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“employed the execution of the federal search warrant as a `fishing expedition.'”
4 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.