United States v. Mathison’s Empirical Analysis
157 F.3d 541 · 1998
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 13 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably United States v. Silvestri (2005), United States v. Flores (2004)
47 federal appellate · 13 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
Relies on United States v. Olano · Illinois v. Gates · Franks v. Delaware · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Pinkerton 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In other words, the defendant must show `that the alleged omission[s] would have made it impossible to find probable cause.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] mere allegation standing alone, without an offer of proof in the form of a sworn affidavit of a witness or some other reliable corroboration, is insufficient to make the difficult preliminary showing,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“he or she can make a substantial preliminary showing that a false statement was included in the affidavit (or that relevant information was omitted from it) intentionally or recklessly.”
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.