United States v. Bold’s Empirical Analysis
19 F.3d 99 · 1994
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Stoute (1996), United States v. Lee (1995)
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 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 Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · United States v. Sokolow · Alabama v. White · Associated Grocers, Inc. v. Washington
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is nothing in White that precludes police from acting on an anonymous tip when the information to be corroborated refers to present rather than future actions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The unique dangers presented to law officers and law-abiding citizens by firearms are well chronicled." [ United States v. Clipper, 973 F.2d 944, 949-51 (D.C.Cir. 1992)]. An officer who is able to corroborate other information in an anonymous tip that another person is in actual possession of a gun is faced with an "unappealing choice." United States v. McClinnhan, 660 F.2d 500, 502 (D.C.Cir.1981). He must either stop and search the individual, or wait until the individual brandishes or uses the gun. Id. at 502-503 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here the tip concerns an individual with a gun, the totality-of-the-circumstances test for determining reasonable suspicion should include consideration of the possibility of the possession of a gun, and the government's need for a prompt investigation.”
3 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.