United States v. Stelten’s Empirical Analysis
867 F.2d 446 · 1989
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Pleasant v. Lovell (1989), United States v. Curry (1990)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 26 U.S.C. § 7201 · 31 U.S.C. § 5313
Relies on United States v. Leon · Stanford v. Texas · Basic Inc. v. Levinson · United States v. Spilotro · United States v. Crozier
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“depending on the circumstances of the particular case, a warrant may be so facially deficient--i.e., in failing to particularize the place to be searched or the things to be seized--that the executing officers cannot reasonably presume it to be valid.”
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.