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United States v. Stepp’s Empirical Analysis

680 F.3d 651 · 2012

Citation profile

47
cited by 47 later decisions
3
states following
December 2024
most recently cited

12 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3583 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Wong Sun v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · Whren v. United States

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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the traffic stop beyond its original purposes because the topics covered more than just context-framing questions and the extraneous questions lasted a not insubstantial amount of time”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “dog sniff may render an otherwise lawfal seizure unlawful ... if it unreasonably prolongs the initial stop and the officer lacked an independent reasonable suspicion to extend the stop”
    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.