United States v. Meier’s Empirical Analysis
602 F.2d 253 · 1979
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2011 · most notably Robbins v. California (1981), State v. Patino (1980)
10 federal appellate · 19 state decisions — followed in 12 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Chadwick · Arkansas v. Sanders
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a backpack, like a suitease, is a repository for personal items when one wishes to transport them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he exigency of mobility must be assessed at the point immediately before the search—after the police have seized the object to be search and have it securely within their control. Once police have seized a suitcase, * * * the extent of its mobility is in no way affected by the place from which it was taken. Accordingly as a general rule there is no greater need for warrantless searches of luggage taken from automobiles than of luggage taken from other places.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Filipi
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.