United States v. McCraw’s Empirical Analysis
920 F.2d 224 · 1990
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably United States v. Berkowitz (1991), United States v. Seidman (1998)
55 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Payton v. New York · Beck v. State of Ohio · Brown v. Illinois · New York v. Belton
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'at that moment the facts and circumstances within [the officers'] knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information were sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing that the [suspect] had committed or was committing an offense.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“____ whether officers without an arrest warrant but with probable cause may, absent exigent circumstances, force their way into a hotel room and arrest an occupant who, from inside his room partially opens the door to determine the identity of the officers knocking on the door.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Assuming that the consent to search and hotel room statements were voluntary by fifth amendment standards, the proximity in time and place between the arrest and the search and statements and the absence of intervening circumstances nevertheless require suppression of this evidence to protect the physical integrity of the home and to vindicate the purpose of the fourth amendment.”
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.