United States v. Queen’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 346 · 1988
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably United States v. Edwards (1989), United States v. Horne (1993)
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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. § 3141 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3143 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3148 (Bail Reform Act of 1984)
Relies on Katz v. United States · Chimel v. California · Florida v. Royer · New York v. Belton · 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ustodial arrests are often dangerous; the police must act decisively and cannot be expected to make punctilious judgments regarding what is within and what is just beyond the arrestee's grasp.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“law enforcement officers have reduced ... property not immediately associated with the person of the arrestee to their exclusive control, and there is no longer any danger that the arrestee might gain access to the property to seize a weapon or destroy evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The potential dangers lurking in all custodial arrests make warrantless searches of items within the immediate control area reasonable without requiring the arresting officer to calculate the probability that weapons or destructible evidence may be involved.”
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.