United States v. Plummer’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.3d 906 · 2005
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2021
4 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Michigan v. Long · United States v. Cummins · United States v. Rowland · United States v. Wald
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“circuit[] . . . split on the issue of whether a particular officer's actual motivation is relevant to the reasonableness analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such a search . . . valid if a hypothetical officer in the same circumstances could reasonably believe the suspect is dangerous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not depend upon the searching officer actually fearing the suspect is dangerous”
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.