Cauthen v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Gomez v. United States (1991), Lewis v. United States (1993)
25 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 Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Cortez · Alabama v. White · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For flight to suggest consciousness of guilt — a mentality other than a legitimate desire to avoid the police — that flight not only must be very clearly in response to a show of authority but also must be carried out at such a rate of speed, ..., or in such an erratic or evasive manner, that a guilty conscience is the most reasonable explanation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re T.L.L. · In Re MIW“no physical description of the suspects by sex, race, size, clothing or any other distinguishing feature,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Kp · Ware v. United States“considerably longer than the delay involved in our past decisions on point”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re T.L.L. · In Re TLL
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.