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133 F.3d 1070 · 1998

Citation profile

55
cited by 55 later decisions
1
states following
October 2024
most recently cited

42 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably United States v. Holloway (2002), United States of America v. Clarence Richardson Jr (2000)

42 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Ornelas v. United States · Rhode Island v. Innis · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Old Chief v. United States · Remmer 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “is justified in connection with an in-home arrest if an officer reasonably believes that the area to be swept harbors an individual posing a danger to those at the arrest scene. United States v. Cunningham, 133 F.3d 1070 , 1073 (8th Cir .), cert. denied, 118 S.Ct. 1823 (1998).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “a district court may hold a hearing to determine whether any private communication, contact, or tampering with a juror has occurred in a criminal case and, if so, whether such incident has prejudiced the defendant.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[w]hen applying this standard, we give deference to the fact finder, who had an opportunity to observe the demeanor and credibility of the witnesses.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.