Bruner v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
293 F.2d 621 · 1961
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 1980 · most notably State v. Burnett (1964), United States v. Bell (1974)
32 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 5205 · 26 U.S.C. § 5601
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Roviaro v. United States · Scher v. United States · Devaney v. Cochran
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our question as to the validity of the search and seizure is one of probable cause, that is, a belief ‘reasonably arising out of circumstances known to the seizing officer, that an automobile or other vehicle contains that which by law is subject to seizure and destruction.’ Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132 , 149, 45 S.Ct. 280 , 284, 69 L.Ed. 543 . See Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. 160 , 69 S.Ct. 1302 , 93 L.Ed. 1879 ; Chapman v. United States, 5 Cir., 1961, 289 F.2d 539 ; Patenotte v. United States, 5 Cir., 1959, 266 F.2d 647 ; Flores v. United States, 5 Cir., 1956, 234 F.2d 604 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * were informed that a car of a particular make, model, year and color, would be in or coming from a location having a reputation for moonshine activity, driven by [the suspect] * * * and containing untaxed whiskey. This information supplied probable cause for following the [suspect’s] car and upon it being stopped and [the suspect] being recognized, justified the search.””
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.