United States v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
486 F.3d 855 · 2007
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Gates v. Texas Deparment of Protective & Regulatory Services (2008), Rorrer v. City of Stow (2014)
17 federal appellate · 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 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Brown v. Illinois · Alabama v. White · Minnesota v. Dickerson
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.
“the credibility and reliability of the informant, the specificity of the information contained in the tip or report, the extent to which the information in the tip or report can be verified by officers in the field, and whether the tip or report concerns active or recent activity, or has instead gone stale.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When we evaluate consent given after a Fourth Amendment violation, the admissibility of the challenged evidence turns on a two-pronged inquiry: 1) whether the consent was voluntarily and freely ■ given; and 2) whether the consent was an independent act of free will. The first prong focuses on coercion, the second on causal connection with the constitutional violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the tip is anonymous, the credibility and reliability of the informant cannot be determined, and the government must establish reasonable suspicion based on some or all of the other factors.”). The Supreme Court views anonymous informants with”
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.