United States v. Roe’s Empirical Analysis
495 F.2d 600 · 1974
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2004 · most notably United States v. Aleman (1979), United States v. Valentine (1983)
21 federal appellate · 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Adams v. Williams · Chambers v. Maroney · United States v. Robinson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“• . It now appears to be settled that an officer at the time of a lawful custodial arrest may, without a warrant, make a ‘full’ search of the person of the accused, a limited area within the control of the person arrested, and of an automobile in his possession at the scene of the arrest for the discovery and preservation of criminal evidence.” United States v. Roe, 495 F.2d 600, 603 (Tenth Cir. 1974).”
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.