El-Amin v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2022
13 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 · Whren v. United States · Adams v. Williams · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · Elkins 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]pon learning that the fourth individual had a hand gun, [the police officer] was warranted in inferring that the inherent tendency toward violence demonstrated by one group member carrying a gun raised reasonable and particularized safety concerns as to other members of the same group. The circumstances in this case support the officer's objectively reasonable apprehension that, upon discovery of a weapon on the person of one member of the group, the other members of the group might also be armed and dangerous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitehead v. Com.“In reaching this conclusion, we emphasized that El-Amin's companionship status alone was [not] sufficient to authorize a pat down search [and] that an officer's generalized concern for his safety alone would [not] validate such a search under the Fourth Amendment. The totality of the facts in this caseplace, time, discovery of a weapon, and group activityvalidates the pat down search under the principles utilized by the Supreme Court when considering Fourth Amendment challenges to searches and seizures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitehead v. Com.“another officer conducted a pat down search of El-Amin and found a .38-caliber revolver. Id. The officer then arrested El-Amin for illegal possession of a firearm as a juvenile, searched him incident to the arrest, and found marijuana and cocaine in his pockets. Id. El-Amin contended that the officer had no particularized suspicion to believe he was engaged in criminal activity or that he was a danger to the officer and, therefore,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitehead v. Com.
How this case has been treated — in progress
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