United States v. Snow’s Empirical Analysis
919 F.2d 1458 · 1990
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 21 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably United States v. Soto (1993), United States v. Riccardi (2005)
31 federal appellate · 21 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ross · Sedillo 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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the nature of the criminal activity, the length of the activity, and the nature of the property to be seized.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a warrant is tainted by some unconstitutionally obtained information, we nonetheless uphold the warrant if there was probable cause absent that information. An affidavit containing erroneous or unconstitutionally obtained information invalidates a warrant if that information was critical to establishing probable cause. If, however, the affidavit contained sufficient accurate or untainted evidence, the warrant is nevertheless valid.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he locked safe was a likely source for the specified documents and could therefore be opened.”
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.