United States v. Chavez-Villarreal’s Empirical Analysis
3 F.3d 124 · 1993
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably United States v. Brigham (2004), United States v. Melendez-Garcia (1994)
85 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Cortez · Brown v. Illinois · United States v. Sokolow
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he admissibility of the challenged evidence turns on a two-pronged inquiry: whether the consent was voluntarily given and whether it was an independent act of free will.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“is a normal reaction if the driver wishes to let the tailing vehicle pass.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[c]onsent to search may, but does not necessarily, dissipate the taint of a [prior] fourth amendment violation.'”
3 later decisions 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.