United States v. Pierre’s Empirical Analysis
484 F.3d 75 · 2007
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably United States v. Campa (2008), United States v. Morales-Aldahondo (2008)
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 853 (§ 413 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Bagley · United States v. Dominguez Benitez · United States v. Zannino · Greer v. Miller · Cleveland 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the defendant is not entitled to lawful possession of the seized property, the property is contraband or subject to forfeiture[,] or the government's need for the property as evidence continues.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[the] existence [of reasonable suspicion] is assessed on a case-by-case basis, in light of all attendant circumstances. When evaluating a claim of staleness, courts do not measure the timeliness of information simply by counting the number of days that have elapsed. Rather, a court must assess the nature of the information, the nature and characteristics of the suspected criminal activity, and the likely endurance of the information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Spillner“A constructive amendment occurs when the charging terms of an indictment are altered, either literally or in effect, by prosecution or court after the grand jury has last passed upon them.”
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.