United States v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
279 F.2d 712 · 1960
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 7 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2001 · most notably Aguilar v. Texas (1964), Rosencranz v. United States (1966)
55 federal appellate · 7 district · 16 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 Jones v. United States · Draper v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · Abel v. United States · Giordenello 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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However, it is also clear that in order for a search warrant to be valid the supporting affidavits need not contain all the information possessed by the officers seeking to obtain it. United States v. Bell, D.C.D.C.1955, 17 F.R.D. 13 , 14. In close cases such as the present one the very fact that the Commissioner found probable cause is itself a substantial factor tending to uphold the validity of the warrant he issued.””
3 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.