Kirkpatrick v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
870 F.2d 276 · 1989
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2015 · most notably 768 So. 2d 542 - State v. Hoffman (2000), United States v. Gould (2004)
15 federal appellate · 8 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Glasser v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Chimel v. California · Payton v. New York
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Despite the police’s belief in the likelihood that a confederate of an arrested individual may almost always be in the arrestee’s apartment, the police must articulate reasonable grounds for believing that the suspected accomplice is indeed there. An unsubstantiated belief that confederates may gather in a single apartment does not suffice to permit the police to search an apartment that they would otherwise lack a valid basis to search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kosman“have reasonable grounds to believe that there are other persons present inside who might present a security risk.”
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.