Lopez-Ruiz v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 9 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 235 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2026 · most notably State v. Ceballos (2003), United States v. Higgs (2003)
54 federal appellate · 9 district · 77 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Waters v. City of Morristown · United States v. Meza-Casillas · United States v. Salgado-Pita · United States v. Mendoza-Sandoval · United States v. Moreno-Galindo
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.