United States v. Hendrickson’s Empirical Analysis
940 F.2d 320 · 1991
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Katz v. United States · Taylor v. United States · Oliver v. United States · Minnesota v. Olson · California v. Ciraolo
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether, if the particular form of [conduct] practiced by the police is permitted to go unregulated by constitutional restraints, the amount of privacy and freedom remaining to citizens would be diminished to a compass inconsistent with the aims of a free and open society.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'violent felony' means any crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year ... that ... is burglary ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he test for legitimacy is not whether an individual chooses to conceal his or her activity, but instead ‘whether the government’s intrusion infringes upon the personal and societal values protected by the Fourth Amendment.’ ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.