United States v. Dotson’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 227 · 1995
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Feathers, United States v. Smith (2001)
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 6050I · 31 U.S.C. § 5313
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Florida v. Royer · Beck v. State of Ohio · United States v. Sharpe
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Supreme Court has held that the test for whether an arrest is constitutionally valid is “whether, at the moment the arrest was made, the officers had probable cause to make it — whether at that moment the facts and circumstances within their knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information were sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing that the petitioner had committed or was committing an offense.” Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. 89, 91 , 85 S.Ct. 223 , 13 L.Ed.2d 142 (1964); see United States v. Thomas, 11 F.3d 620, 627 (6th Cir.1993), cert. denied, 511 U.S. 1043 , 114 S.Ct. 1570 , 128 L.Ed.2d 214 (1994).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“effort to restrain Dotson was an appropriate degree of force to effectuate the Terry stop”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Feathers
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.