United States v. White’s Empirical Analysis
979 F.2d 539 · 1992
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably United States v. Lattimore (1996), United States v. Saadeh (1995)
53 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 2423 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 18 U.S.C. § 3501
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Arizona v. Fulminante · McNabb v. United States · Illinois v. Rodriguez · Mallory v. United States
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the expressed intention to obtain a warrant is genuine . . . and not merely a pretext to induce submission, it does not vitiate consent.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“put into motion a chain of events that contained an inevitable tragic result”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]aseless threats to obtain a search warrant may render consent involuntary”
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.