James Tinney v. Lawrence E. Wilson, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
408 F.2d 912 · 1969
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2001 · most notably United States v. Lopez (1971), 16 Cal. 3d 869 - People v. Leib (1976)
11 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Beck v. State of Ohio · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Linkletter v. Walker · United States v. Rabinowitz
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the testimony of Officer McGill indicates, Tinney was not in fact arrested until after Officer McGill had actually entered the pocket of Tinney’s coat and removed the packet of pills and had seen that they were, or at least appeared to be, the drug Seconal. This action surely constituted a search of Tinney’s person which went far beyond a ‘frisk’ for weapons.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ricci v. State“while [the officer's] 'frisk' ... for weapons was constitutionally valid at its inception, the officer's 'squeezing' action transgressed the limits of a search which must be 'confined in scope to an intrusion reasonably designed to discover guns, knives, clubs, or other hidden instruments for the assault of the police officer. '”
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.