United States v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 297 · 1994
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. McMasters (1996), United States v. Earles (1997)
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Arizona v. Fulminante · Estelle v. McGuire · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In essence, the government’s argument is that because the warrant authorized officers to search inside the wallet, it also authorized them to seize the wallet. This argument is a fundamental misapprehension of Fourth Amendment law. The record shows that the government did not discover the notes until it searched the wallet in the middle of Robbins’ trial, months after it seized the wallet from his business. The threshold issue is whether officers were entitled to seize the wallet in the first place. The general rule, of course, is that police may only seize items described in the search warrant, absent an exception to the warrant requirement. Simply put, we believe that officers did not have authority to seize the wallet because the wallet itself was not an item described in the search warrant. That items described in the warrant were ultimately found in the wallet does not justify the initial seizure. A search warrant does not give the police license to seize personal property not described in the warrant on the ground that such property might contain items that the warrant does describe; it only allows police to search such property at the place where the warrant is being executed if the property “legitimately might contain the [items] specified in the warrant,” and then to seize the described items they find inside or, under certain circumstances, the property itself once it is found to contain described items, see United States v. Beusch, 596 F.2d 871, 876-77 (9th Cir.197”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“views the evidence in the light most favorable to the Government, resolving evidentiary conflicts in favor of the Government, and accepting all reasonable inferences drawn from the evidence that supports the jury's verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“considering a motion for a judgment of acquittal, a district court has very limited latitude.”
1 later decision 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.