United States v. Trimble’s Empirical Analysis
986 F.2d 394 · 1993
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably United States v. McSwain (1994), Bruce Oliver v. James Woods (2000)
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Edwards v. Arizona · Beck v. State of Ohio · Rhode Island v. Innis · 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When individuals voluntarily abandon property, they forfeit any expectation of privacy in it that they might have had.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“warrantless search or seizure of abandoned property is not unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A finding of abandonment of property is reviewed under the clearly erroneous standard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.