United States v. White’s Empirical Analysis
871 F.2d 41 · 1989
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 4 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably Arizona v. Gant (2009), Thornton v. United States (2004)
42 federal appellate · 4 district · 21 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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Delaware v. Prouse · New York v. Belton · Michigan v. Long · Cady v. Dombrowski
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a policeman has made a lawful custodial arrest of the occupant of an automobile, he may, as a contemporaneous incident of that arrest, search the passenger compartment of that automobile.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]nce a police officer has effected a valid arrest, that officer can search the area that is or was within the arrestee's control.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“get out of their car, arrested, patted down, and split ... up into four spearate areas of the Thruway....”
4 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.