United States v. Sealey’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.3d 7 · 1994
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably United States of America v. Larry Valentine (2000), United States v. McCarthy (1996)
22 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 46
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Mendenhall · California v. Hodari D. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado · Abel 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n scrutinizing a district court's denial of a suppression motion, the court of appeals will review findings of fact for clear error, while at the same time subjecting the trial court's ultimate constitutional conclusions to plenary oversight.”
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.