United States v. Rideau’s Empirical Analysis
969 F.2d 1572 · 1992
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 4 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably United States v. Cardenas (1993), United States v. King (1993)
45 federal appellate · 4 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Payton v. New York · Adams v. Williams · 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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the setting in which the police officer acts may reasonably and significantly affect his decisional calculus”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n assessing the reasonableness of an officer’s actions, “it is imperative that the facts be judged against an objective standard: would the facts available to the officer at the moment of the seizure or the search ‘warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that the action was appropriate?”.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When approached and asked his name, Rideau did not respond but appeared nervous and, critically, backed away. It was not unreasonable under the circumstances for [the officer] to have feared that Rideau was moving back to give himself time and space to draw a weapon.... ... [A]fter Rideau was lawfully detained, he responded to the request of the officer by backing away — a move which in this specific context was reasonably seen as threatening. [The officer] could reasonably believe that Rideau was gaining room to use a weapon.”
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.