United States v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
473 F.3d 1026 · 2007
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Harper v. City of Los Angeles (2008), Torres v. City of Los Angeles (2008)
18 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 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. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Florida v. Royer · Whren v. United States · United States v. Hensley · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary · Devenpeck v. Alford
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen evidence is uncovered during a search incident to an arrest in reliance on a flyer or bulletin, its admissibility turns on whether the officers who issued the flyer possessed probable cause to make the arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such information would not have brought [him] any closer to independently knowing facts sufficient to constitute [reasonable suspicion. The Court] would still have to impute facts known only to [Mello] and his team.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Wayne R. LaFave, 2 Search and Seizure: A Treatise on the Fourth Amendment, § 3.5(c) (Oct. 2017 update). As the Supreme Court explained in Hensley , the rule is a practical one that permits law enforcement officers”
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.