United States v. Brady’s Empirical Analysis
819 F.2d 884 · 1987
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 8 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably State v. Ramirez (1994), United States v. Edwards (1989)
35 federal appellate · 8 district · 10 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Rhode Island v. Innis · Berkemer v. McCarty · United States v. Ross · Michigan v. Long
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After [the defendant] said he had a gun in the trunk, [the officer] had probable cause to think that [the defendant] was violating [the California law that] prohibits carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle without a permit.... [The officer] could search [the defendant's] car and containers within it that might conceal a firearm.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“test to determine whether a person was in custody. Id. The district court did not make an explicit finding whether Watkins was in custody. Although we may independently examine facts, findings, and the record to determine whether Watkins was in custody, see id., we decline to do so. Even if Watkins was in custody, the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be applied in all its rigor to a situation in which police officers ask questions reasonably prompted by a concern for the public safety.”
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.