United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
994 F.2d 740 · 1993
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Club Retro, L.L.C. v. Hilton (2009), United States v. Haro-Salcedo (1997)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 16 U.S.C. § 1538 (§ 9 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 703 (Arctic Tundra Habitat Emergency Conservation Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 3401 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 545
Relies on Abel v. United States · Michigan v. Tyler · Kentucky v. Stincer · New York v. Burger · Donovan v. Dewey
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a matter of law that the federal agent used the state regulatory inspection as a pretext for an investigatory search.” Id. at 743-44 . In that case, it was clear that the administrative inspection was merely an afterthought designed to provide”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he administrative search was employed solely as an instrument of criminal law enforcement. The uncontroverted facts establish that the federal agent used the state inspection as a pretext for a broad investigatory search. We have not been cited to any federal statute that authorizes a warrantless inspection of taxidermists. A Wyoming statute authorizes inspections of taxidermists, but only when performed by state agents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an administrative inspection may not be used as a pretext solely to gather evidence of criminal activity.”
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.