United States v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
27 F.3d 1403 · 1994
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably United States of America v. Larry Valentine (2000), United States v. Cormier (2000)
53 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · California v. Hodari D. · Crisp v. Rubin · Colonial Village, Inc. v. Spann · Alford 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A seizure occurs either when a suspect is physically forced to stop or when the suspect submits to the officer's show of authority.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A seizure does not occur if an officer applies physical force in an attempt to detain a suspect but such force is ineffective.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should weigh all the evidence and not focus on any portion of the transcript that the reporter is going to be reading.”
2 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.