Pleasant v. Lovell’s Empirical Analysis
876 F.2d 787 · 1989
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 28 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Aguilar (1989), The Procter & Gamble Company v. Amway Corporation (2001)
40 federal appellate · 28 district · 14 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 12 U.S.C. § 3407 · 12 U.S.C. § 3409 · 12 U.S.C. § 3413 · 12 U.S.C. § 3420 · 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Katz v. United States · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) whether the government knew of and acquiesced in the intrusive conduct, and 2) whether the party performing the search intended to assist law enforcement efforts or to further his own ends.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“if the government coerces, dominates or directs the actions of a private person”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“that the presence of some commercial activity does not change the standard of first amendment review”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.