United States v. Coplin’s Empirical Analysis
463 F.3d 96 · 2006
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 9 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Hubble (2009), Commonwealth v. Chase (2008)
41 federal appellate · 9 district · 13 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 Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Booker · Almendarez-Torres v. United States · Ornelas v. United States · Whren 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Stops premised on a mistake of law, even a reasonable, good-faith mistake, are generally held to be unconstitutional.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“); United States v. McDonald, 453 F.3d 958, 961-962 (7th Cir.2006) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re T.L. · In Re Tl“the validity of a stop depends on whether the officer's actions were objectively reasonable in the circumstances, and in mistake cases the question is simply whether the mistake, whether of law or of fact, was an objectively reasonable one.”
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.