United States v. Formaro’s Empirical Analysis
152 F.3d 768 · 1998
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably United States v. Avery (2002), United States v. Gonzalez-Rodriguez (2001)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Franks v. Delaware · Sowashee Venture v. EB, Inc. · United States v. Angulo-Lopez
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In investigations of ongoing narcotic operations, 'intervals of weeks or months between the last described act and the application for a warrant [does] not necessarily make the information stale.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have repeatedly held that '[t]he statements of a reliable confidential informant are themselves sufficient to support probable cause for a search warrant' . . . .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“except for the time they were with [the drug dealer]”
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.