Mapp v. Lawaetz’s Empirical Analysis
882 F.2d 49 · 1989
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2024
8 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Powell v. McCormack · Smith v. Harmsen · Bond v. Floyd
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he premise of Mapp’s argument confuses the internal rules adopted by the legislature to govern its day-to-day affairs with constitutional and statutory law and would result in judicial interference in the legislature’s conduct of its own internal affairs. Absent express constitutional command, we believe the judiciary should be wary of such action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Hansen · Brown v. Hansen“We hold that ... the question of whether [the legislature's] rule requiring a two-thirds vote applied to Mapp's case is a matter entrusted to that body for its final resolution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Hansen · Brown v. Hansen“the Virgin Islands' analogue of a state constitution,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Hansen · Brown v. Hansen
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.