United States v. Beal’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.3d 950 · 2005
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2022
14 federal appellate · 2 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Booker · Blakely v. Washington · New York v. Belton · United States v. Hernandez · United States v. Kragness
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven if admissable under Rule 608(b), a district court may nevertheless exclude the evidence if its 'probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury....' " United States v. Beal , 430 F.3d 950 , 956 (8th Cir. 2005), quoting Fed. R. Evid. 403 . See King v. Ahrens , 16 F.3d 265 , 269 (8th Cir. 1994) ("The Rule 403 balancing of probative value versus prejudicial effect is an integral step toward a determination of admissibility under ... Rule 608(b).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n inventory search 'must be reasonable in light of the totality of the circumstances.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“keep their eyes open for potentially incriminating items that they might discover in the course of an inventory search, as long as their sole purpose is not to investigate a crime.”
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.