Coyne v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably McCreary v. Sigler (1969), State v. DiRienzo (1969)
7 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Rosencranz 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is fundamental ‘that [an] affidavit must contain something affirmatively indicating that there is probable cause at or about the time the search warrant is applied for.’ Coyne v. Watson (1967), 282 F.Supp. 235, 237 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““However, the affidavit before us indicates that, based on the information which was received from the two eye witnesses, the officer concluded ‘that there is urgent necessity that said premises be searched in the night, to prevent said things from being concealed or removed so as not to be found.’ In our view, this affidavit therefore contains language which shows on its face that the information received by the officer was recently contemporaneous and was to the effect that the machine gun was ‘now’ in the possession of Coyne on the described premises.” Id. at 238.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Edwards
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.