United States v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
65 F.3d 68 · 1995
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably United States of America v. Noe Mancillas (1999), United States v. Olivera-Mendez (2007)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Carroll v. United States · New York v. Belton · United States v. Place · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in [the vehicle].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A finding is clearly erroneous when, although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“lawfully extends to all parts of the vehicle in which contraband or evidence could be concealed, including closed compartments and trunks.”
1 later decision 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.