United States v. Dhinsa’s Empirical Analysis
171 F.3d 721 · 1999
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States v. Dhinsa (2001), Durruthy v. Pastor (2003)
21 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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. § 3731 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Whren v. United States · United States v. Scott · Scott v. United States · Ohio v. Robinette · Flanagan 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an observed traffic violation legitimates a stop even if the detectives do not rely on the traffic violation”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“and other Fourth Amendment cases require that we judge the reasonableness of an officer's actions based on the objective circumstances surrounding her actions and not on her subjective intent.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is well established that 'an officer's use of a traffic violation as a pretext to stop a car in order to obtain evidence to some more serious crimes is of no constitutional significance.'”
2 later decisions 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.