United States v. Tejada’s Empirical Analysis
524 F.3d 809 · 2008
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Arizona v. Gant (2009), United States v. Are (2009)
16 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Chimel v. California · Nix v. Williams · United States v. Turner · United States v. Johnson · United States v. Lyons
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the police could lawfully have searched the defendant's grabbing radius at the moment of arrest, he has no legitimate complaint if, the better to protect themselves from him, they first put him outside that radius”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arizona v. Gant“The requirement of obtaining a warrant to search inside a container, when the container is known to contain contraband or other evidence of crime, is far from the core of the Fourth Amendment ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A requirement of sureness-of some approach to certainty-preserves the incentive of police to seek warrants where warrants are required without punishing harmless mistakes excessively.”
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.