Pearson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
150 F.2d 219 · 1945
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2010
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Stacey v. Emery · Director General of Railroads v. Kastenbaum · Richardson Machinery Co. v. Scott
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * probable cause justifying a search without a warrant exists where the facts or reasonable inferences deductible therefrom should lead a reasonably prudent and intelligent person to conclude that there is good ground to believe that the law is being violated."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beck v. State · Graham v. State
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.