United States v. Karlin’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.2d 968 · 1988
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2010 · most notably Thornton v. United States (2004), United States v. Garrett (1990)
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 12 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Chimel v. California · New York v. Belton · Ball v. United States · Lewis 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule [in Belton] ... does not require the arresting officer to undergo a detailed analysis, at the time of arrest, of whether the arrestee, handcuffed or not, could reach into the ear to seize some item within it, either as a weapon or to destroy evidence, or for some altogether different reason____ The law simply does not require the arresting officer to mentally sift through all these possibilities during an arrest, before deciding whether he may lawfully search the vehicle.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If those differences in degree are to control, the Court’s preference for a straightforward rule for guidance of police officers and avoidance of hindsight determinations in litigation would be frustrated. It seems quite likely that, in instances where occupants of a car are arrested, they will be outside the car and will have been placed under some measure of security before the car is searched.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[I]t does not make sense to prescribe a constitutional test that is entirely at odds with safe and sensible police procedures.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.