United States v. Waldrop’s Empirical Analysis
404 F.3d 365 · 2005
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably United States v. Garcia (2005), United States v. Pack (2010)
21 federal appellate · 2 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 Horton v. California · Maryland v. Buie · Yohey v. Collins · United States v. Munoz · United States v. Jones
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e may affirm the district court's ruling on a motion to suppress based on any rationale supported by the record.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A seizure may be justified if the seized items were discovered during the course of a protective sweep while officers looked in places where an individual might be hiding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“has the burden of proving, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the evidence in question was obtained in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.”
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.