United States v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis
978 F.3d 943 · 1992
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably United States of America v. Marcus D. Williams (2000), United States v. Johnson (1993)
21 federal appellate · 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)
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Stone v. Powell · Elkins v. United States · McNabb 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“require that statements made under oath in support of probable cause be tape-recorded or otherwise placed on the record or made part of the affidavit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“seized by officers reasonably relying on a warrant issued by a detached and neutral magistrate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Upon the request of a federal law enforcement officer or an attorney for the government, a search warrant authorized by this rule may be issued (1) by a federal magistrate judge, or a state court of record within the federal district, for a search of property or for a person within the district and (2) by a federal magistrate judge for a search of property or for a person either within or outside the district if the property or person is within the district when the warrant is sought but might move outside the district before the warrant is executed.”
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.