United States v. Bueno’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 120 · 1994
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Riascos-Suarez (1996), United States v. Worley (1999)
23 federal appellate · 3 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Sokolow · Berkemer v. McCarty
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consensual encounters in which contact is initiated by a police officer without any articulable reason whatsoever and the citizen is briefly asked some questions; a temporary involuntary detention or Terry stop which must be predicated upon reasonable suspicion; and arrests which must be based on probable cause.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the district court's decision regarding consent will not be overturned unless it is clearly erroneous.”
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.