United States v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
424 F.2d 57 · 1970
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
5
states following
June 1977
most recently cited
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Chimel v. California · Preston v. United States · Stoner v. California · James v. State of Louisiana
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“since the owners of the suitcases were being held in custody, it was the duty of the officers to make an inventory of the contents of the suitcases. Whether the second examination is considered as a continuation of the first search [incident to an arrest] or the taking of an inventory, it was not prohibited by the rule of Preston v. United States, 376 U.S. 364 , . 84 S.Ct. 881 , 11 L.Ed.2d 777 (1964), or Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752 , 89 S.Ct. 2034 , 23 L.Ed.2d 685 (1969).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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