United States v. Suarez’s Empirical Analysis
902 F.2d 1466 · 1990
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Fuller v. Mg Jewelry (1991), United States v. Jerez (1997)
28 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Segura v. United States · New York v. Harris · Samuel Moore & Co. v. Multiflex, Inc. · United States v. Whitten · United States v. Delgadillo-Velasquez
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.
“justified a departure from the normal procedure of obtaining a warrant.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“point to 'specific and articulable facts supporting their belief that other dangerous persons may be in the building or elsewhere on the premises.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[e]ven the existence of probable cause, without more, does not validate a warrantless entry into a residence.'”
2 later decisions 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.