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534 U.S. 847

Lopez-Ruiz v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided October 1, 2001

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 2001-10-01

Relies on Waters v. City of Morristown · United States v. Meza-Casillas · United States v. Salgado-Pita

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Decided 2001-10-01

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.

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¶1 *847(Reported below: 8 Fed. Appx. 704);

¶2(15 Fed. Appx. 404);

¶3(8 Fed. Appx. 712);

¶4(8 Fed. Appx. 710);

¶5(7 Fed. Appx. 592);

¶6(8 Fed. Appx. 709);

¶7(8 Fed. Appx. 706);

¶8(8 Fed. Appx. 671);

¶9(7 Fed. Appx. 599);

¶10 *848(8 Fed. Appx. 701);

¶11(8 Fed. Appx. 619);

¶12(7 Fed. Appx. 670);

¶13(10 Fed. Appx. 443);

¶14(15 Fed. Appx. 408);

¶15(7 Fed. Appx. 594);

¶16(6 Fed. Appx. 639);

¶17(8 Fed. Appx. 712);

¶18(7 Fed. Appx. 674);

¶19(8 Fed. Appx. 704);

¶20(5 Fed. Appx. 660);

¶21(8 Fed. Appx. 702);

¶22(8 Fed. Appx. 708);

¶23(7 Fed. Appx. 593);

¶24(6 Fed. Appx. 596);

¶25(8 Fed. Appx. 703);

¶26(8 Fed. Appx. 713);

¶27(8 Fed. Appx. 716);

¶28(8 Fed. Appx. 707);

¶29(8 Fed. Appx. 701);

¶30(8 Fed. Appx. 716);

¶31(8 Fed. Appx. 705);

¶32(11 Fed. Appx. 898);

¶33(5 Fed. Appx. 706);

¶34(8 Fed. Appx. 715);

¶35(17 Fed. Appx. 509);

¶36(242 F. 3d 385);

¶37(242 F. 3d 384).

¶38C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.