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413 F.2d 371 · 1969

Citation profile

84
cited by 84 later decisions
9
states following
July 2014
most recently cited

45 federal appellate · 1 district · 31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 68 Ill. 2d 158 - People v. Wipfler (1977), United States v. Wylie (1978)

45 federal appellate · 1 district · 31 state decisions

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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 · Katz v. United States · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Henry v. United States · Harris 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'the test must not be what the defendant himself * * * thought, but what a reasonable man, innocent of any crime, would have thought had he been in the defendant's shoes.'”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. United States v. Burrell · 445 So. 2d 456 - State v. Brown
  2. “of persons. Only when the officer, by means of physical force or show of authority, has in some way restrained the liberty of a citizen may we conclude that a”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 10 Ill. App. 3d 570 - People v. McGarry · United States v. Young
  3. “We have often noted . . . that the fact of inconsistencies among witnesses does not require that the testimony be rejected by a trier or triers of fact, but is simply a factor to be considered.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. United States v. Sheard · In Re AHB

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.