United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
522 F.3d 305 · 2008
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2024
7 federal appellate · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on South Dakota v. Opperman · Colorado v. Bertine · Illinois v. Lafayette · Florida v. Wells · United States v. Perez
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]mpoundments of vehicles for community caretaking purposes are consonant with the Fourth Amendment so long as the impoundment decision was reasonable under the circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to indicate that an impoundment decision made pursuant to standardized procedures will most likely, although not necessarily always, satisfy the Fourth Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the more structured approach ... requiring that there be standardized police procedures governing impoundments”
2 later decisions 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.