United States v. Como’s Empirical Analysis
53 F.3d 87 · 1995
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably United States v. Lage (1999), United States v. Miller (2010)
13 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 United States v. Dunnigan · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Colorado v. Bertine · Florida v. Wells · Weissbrodt v. White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the police acquire temporary custody of a vehicle, a warrantless search of the vehicle does not offend Fourth Amendment principles so long as the search is made pursuant to “standard police procedure's” and for the purpose of “protecting the car and its content” .... Police may lawfully conduct such searches while the vehicle is still on the highway awaiting towing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'Connell v. State“Allowing an officer to exercise his judgment based on concerns related to the objectives of an inventory search does not violate the Fourth Amendment.”
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.