Evans v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
242 F.2d 534 · 1957
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1991 · most notably Aguilar v. Texas (1964), United States v. Haskins (1965)
46 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Rose v. United States · Gracie v. United States · United States v. Celedonia
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant exists where circumstances before the officer are such as to cause a man of reasonable prudence to believe that an offence is being committed. United States v. Celedonia, D.C., 95 F.Supp. 228 . The Commissioner must exercise his own judgment as to whether the facts in the affidavit constitute probable cause for issuance of a search warrant; and his determination is conclusive, unless his judgment is arbitrarily exercised. Grade v. United States, 1 Cir., 15 F.2d 644 . In the instant case there is no showing of abuse of discretion on the part of the Commissioner or on the part of the district court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he return of a search warrant is a ministerial act and any failure therein does not void the warrant.”
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.