United States v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
873 F.2d 269 · 1989
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably United States v. Kelly (1989), United States v. Moore (1994)
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Place · Reading Co. v. CJI Industries, Inc. · United States v. Berry · United States v. Vera
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When police seize luggage from a suspect's custody, the limitations applicable to investigative detentions of the person define the permissible scope of an investigative detention of the person's luggage on less than probable cause.” Appellant's Br. at 13 (citing Place). 4 . The Eleventh Circuit noted this problem in the context of checked baggage removed from a flight: "We suspect ... that, at the time the bags were first seized, the length of time the passenger could be expected to be dispossessed of luggage under these circumstances would be hours and that this seizure would inherently be more than minimally disruptive.”
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.