United States v. Ware’s Empirical Analysis
890 F.2d 1008 · 1989
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably United States v. Chaidez (1990), United States v. Allen (2001)
31 federal appellate · 4 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 Ungar v. Sarafite · Morris v. Slappy · Raphan v. United States · Zerman v. Melton · Walter 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ontinuances are not favored and should be granted only when a compelling reason has been shown.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ware’s lease of the apartment included the storage bin and he was provided with a key giving access to the storage room. The storage room was next door to Ware’s apartment, near enough to alert the searching officers that it was an appurtenance of the apartment, a fact confirmed when the officers found that Ware’s key ring included the keys to both the storage room door and the locked bin.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Abuse of discretion is determined by looking at the particular circumstances of the case.”
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.