Contee v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
215 F.2d 324 · 1954
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 6 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably Whalem v. United States (1965), Spinelli v. United States (1967)
66 federal appellate · 6 district · 17 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. § 4244 · 18 U.S.C. § 4245
Relies on Johnson v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · Husty v. United States · Judd v. United States · Estate of Hauptfuhrer v. Commissioner
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * An uncorroborated tip by an informer whose identity and reliability are both unknown does not constitute probable cause to make an arrest.” Contee v. United States, 1954 [ 94 U.S.App.D.C. 297 ], 215 F.2d 324 , 327.”
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.