United States v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
571 F.2d 2 · 1978
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably United States v. Ochs (1979), United States v. Mancillas (1978)
29 federal appellate · 28 state decisions — followed in 11 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 United States v. Robinson · United States v. Chadwick · Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp. · United States v. Edwards · United States v. Peltier
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [U]ntil Chadwick , there was no reason for law enforcement officials to believe that attache cases were not among those personal effects which, under United States v. Robinson, 414 U.S. 218 , 94 S.Ct. 467 , 38 L.Ed.2d 427 (1973), could be seized as part of a ‘full search of the person’ incident to a lawful arrest, and which, under United States v. Edwards, 415 U.S. 800 , 94 S.Ct. 1234 , 39 L.Ed.2d 771 (1974), could be searched several hours after the suspect had been taken into custody.” Ibid at 571 F.2d 3 .”
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.