Pleasant’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2002
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Rakas v. Illinois · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Alderman 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]efendants could inspect and copy items in Adams' custody that defendants reasonably believed Adams had authority to possess; Adams could share items properly in her custody with defendants without violating plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.”); United States v. Schuster, 684 F.2d at 748-49 (No Fourth Amendment violation where third-party, who had become agent of the government, allowed Secret Service Agent to accompany him on visit to defendant's apartment where defendant had consented to third-party's entiy). 16 . See, e.g., United States v. Pierce, 893 F.2d at 674 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the party performing the search intended to assist law enforcement officers or to further his own ends,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that [governmental] defendants' motive was to harass or disrupt the NCBA in any legal political pursuits”
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.