Robert Bustamonte v. Merle R. Schneckloth, Superintendent, California Conservation Center’s Empirical Analysis
448 F.2d 699 · 1971
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2007 · most notably Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973), Rakas v. Illinois (1979)
31 federal appellate · 8 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Jones v. United States · Bumper v. North Carolina · Cotton v. United States · Diaz-Rosendo v. United States · Cipres 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . [A] waiver cannot be conclusively presumed from a verbal expression of assent. The court must determine from all the circumstances whether the verbal assent reflected an understanding, uncoerced, and unequivocal election to grant the officers a license which the person knows may be freely and effectively withheld. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[A]ny consent to the search, then, amounted to a waiver of a constitutional right and, to be effective, must meet the established standards for constitutional waiver.””
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.