United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
734 F.2d 503 · 1984
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably United States v. Espinosa (1987), United States v. Rodriguez-Morales (1991)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 New York v. Belton · South Dakota v. Opperman · Cady v. Dombrowski · Sansone v. United States · Keeble 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the present case a search was further justified because of the presence of the revolver. A warrantless search of an automobile, including entering a locked trunk, was found to be reasonable in Cady v. Dombrowski in order to retrieve a revolver that would possibly “fall into untrained or perhaps malicious hands.” Id., at 443, 93 S.Ct. at 2529 . Appellant’s revolver in plain view clearly justified a search of the rest of the automobile for other weapons. Also, the presence of non-matching bullets in the passenger compartment would justify a suspicion that matching bullets may be found elsewhere in the automobile or another weapon. Because the inventory search was valid the incriminating items discovered in the trunk were properly admitted as evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he police decided to have the car towed because the owner was clearly unable to drive and they were concerned about vandalism. This is an appropriate exercise of the “community earetaking functions” which the police have a responsibility to discharge. To this end the police followed their routine procedure for securing and inventorying the automobile’s contents.”
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.