United States v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
949 F.2d 737 · 1991
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Goodwin v. Johnson (1997), United States v. Cothran (2002)
48 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 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 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Blockburger v. United States · Payton v. New York · Edwards v. Arizona
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe that probable cause alone also suffices to justify seizing a vehicle on a public street as evidence or instrument of a crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“after the initiation of adversary judicial criminal proceedings,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in unrelated future custodial interrogations.”
2 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.