United States v. Maez’s Empirical Analysis
872 F.2d 1444 · 1989
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 32 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably United States v. Sandoval (1994), Sharrar v. Felsing (1997)
81 federal appellate · 32 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 17 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the temporal proximity of the illegal detention and the consent, any intervening circumstances, and, particularly, the purpose and flagrancy of the officer's unlawful conduct.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the consent is not sufficiently an act of free will to purge the primary taint of the illegal detention, . . . it must be suppressed as 'fruit of the poisonous tree.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“as they would have appeared to prudent, cautious, and trained officers.”
3 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.