United States v. Letsinger’s Empirical Analysis
93 F.3d 140 · 1996
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2019
6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
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 · Florida v. Royer · Ornelas v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Sokolow
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assuming that a complied-with show of authority can constitute a 'seizure' of an object from one's immediate custody or control, [the defendant's] bag was seized only when the officers physically took possession of it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`in view of all the circumstances surrounding the incident, a reasonable person would have believed that he was not free to [”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, the [Supreme Court] concluded that a person is “seized” if he is touched by a police officer with lawful authority and purpose to arrest, even if that person is not subdued— Second, following [the Supreme Court’s] decision in Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 , 19 n. 16, 88 S.Ct. 1868 , 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), the Court also concluded that a person is “seized” under the Fourth Amendment upon the submission of that person to an official “show of authority.””
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.