United States v. Vargas’s Empirical Analysis
369 F.3d 98 · 2004
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Phaneuf v. Fraikin (2006), United States v. Santillan (2018)
7 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Illinois v. Wardlow · Arkansas v. Sullivan · United States v. Bayless
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“amount of force used by the police, the need for such force, and the extent to which an individual's freedom of movement was restrained, and in particular such factors as the number of agents involved, whether the target of the stop was suspected of being armed, the duration of the stop, and the physical treatment of the suspect, including whether or not handcuffs were used.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nder ordinary circumstances, drawing weapons and using handcuffs are not part of a Terry stop.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he officers had reliable information that [the suspect] was carrying a weapon,”
2 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.