United States v. Lipscomb’s Empirical Analysis
435 F.2d 795 · 1970
Citation profile
109 federal appellate · 4 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2015 · most notably South Dakota v. Opperman (1976), United States v. Oates (1977)
109 federal appellate · 4 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 18 U.S.C. § 2312 · 28 U.S.C. § 1732
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Chimel v. California · Beck v. State of Ohio · Ker v. State of California
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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... It can not be denied that to prevent escape, self-injury, or harm to others, the police have a legitimate interest in separating the accused from the property found in his possession. An inventory is then necessary both to preserve the property of the accused while he is in jail and to forestall the possibility that the accused may later claim that some item has not been returned to him."”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An error that might be prejudicial in a close case does not require reversal when evidence of the defendant's guilt is strong.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We agree that there is nothing in Preston or Chimel that forbids the result we reach here. Both cases concern limits on the attempts of police officers to locate and confiscate incriminating evidence. Chimel in particular was an effort to forestall ‘the increasing legitimation of wide-ranging warrantless searches of lodgings and buildings based on the fortuity of arrest on the premises, which had been ushered in by United States v. Rabinowitz, 339 U.S. 56 , 70 S.Ct. 430 , 94 L.Ed. 653 (1950).’ United States v. DeLeo, 1 Cir. 1970, 422 F.2d 487 , 492. Preston and Chimel are thus in-apposite in a case such as this, in which the police officers were not attempting to obtain evidence but were simply following their standard procedure for the safekeeping of the accused’s possessions.””
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.