United States v. Dewitt’s Empirical Analysis
946 F.2d 1497 · 1991
Citation profile
106 federal appellate · 18 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably United States v. Botero-Ospina (1995), United States v. Soto (1993)
106 federal appellate · 18 district · 13 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Rakas v. Illinois · Florida v. Royer · Berkemer v. McCarty
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'clear and positive testimony that consent was unequivocal and specific and freely and intelligently given,'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the officer's action was justified at its inception, and whether [the action] was reasonably related in scope to the circumstances which justified the interference.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“failure to object to the continuation of the search under these circumstances may be considered an indication that the search was within the scope of the consent.”
3 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.