United States v. Collis’s Empirical Analysis
766 F.2d 219 · 1985
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Rose (1989), United States v. Tavolacci (1990)
38 federal appellate · 1 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)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Place · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]bsent coercive or intimidating behavior which negates the reasonable belief that compliance is not compelled ...' there has been no seizure”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is nothing in the Constitution which prevents a policeman from addressing questions to anyone on the streets”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the agent constructively constrained or effectively compelled compliance from the defendant by making the [search] request immediately after accusing the defendant of being a drug courier or by retaining the defendant's ticket or other property.”
2 later decisions 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.