United States v. Couch’s Empirical Analysis
688 F.2d 599 · 1982
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2009 · most notably United States v. Montoya De Hernandez (1985), United States v. Vance (1995)
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Franks v. Delaware · Aguilar v. Texas
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“United States v. Ramsey, 431 U.S. 606 , 619 (1977). Thus,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[g]overnment agents are given considerably more leeway at the border.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“permissible with only a minimal showing of suspicion,”
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.