United States v. Register’s Empirical Analysis
931 F.2d 308 · 1991
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably United States v. Patrick (1992), United States v. Alford (1998)
22 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3109 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Arkansas v. Sanders · Murray v. United States · Castor v. United States · Louisville & Nashville Railroad 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ultimate question, therefore, is whether the search pursuant to warrant was in fact a genuinely independent source of the information and tangible evidence at issue.”); United States v. Bryan, No. 00-31491, 2001 WL 1468508, at (5th Cir. Oct. 29, 2001) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if there is any reasonable view of the evidence to support it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Register has made no attempt to demonstrate that the source of the January 20 delivery was, in fact, the same stash found by the agents in Register’s condominium on January 22.... Because Register has offered no evidence to establish that the cocaine in each of the two transactions came from a common “stash,” we find no violation of the double jeopardy clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Infante
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.