Jackson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
302 F.2d 194 · 1962
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 5 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably Dorman v. United States (1970), Feguer v. United States (1962)
37 federal appellate · 5 district · 54 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 Brinegar v. United States · Reserve Life Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. · International Ass'n of Machinists, Lodge 942 v. National Labor Relations Board · Brownell v. Stjepan Bozo Carija · Bell 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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(P)robable cause is not to be evaluated from a remote vantage point of a library, but rather from the viewpoint of a prudent and cautious police officer on the scene at the time of arrest.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In dealing with probable cause, however, as the very name implies, we deal with probabilities. These are not technical; they are the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act. * * * “ * * * Probable cause exists where ‘the facts and circumstances within their [the officers’] knowledge and of which they have reasonably trustworthy information [are] sufficient in themselves to warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that’ an offense has been or is being committed. * * * “These long-prevailing standards seek to safeguard citizens from rash and unreasonable interferences with privacy and from unfounded charges of crime. They also seek to give fair leeway for enforcing the law in the community’s protection. Because many situations which confront officers in the course of executing their duties are more or less ambiguous, room must be allowed for some mistakes on their part. But. the mistakes must be those of reasonable men, acting on facts leading sensibly to their conclusions of probability. The rule of probable cause’ is a practical, nontechnical conception affording the best compromise that has been found for accommodating these often opposing interests. Requiring more would unduly hamper law enforcement. To allow less would be to leave law-abiding citizens at. the mercy of the' officers’ whim or caprice.” (footnotes omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The decisive factors are that all the circumstances are to be considered together, in a sum total; that the circumstances to be considered are those of the moment; that the impression to be evaluated is the impression upon the mind of a reasonably prudent police officer; and that the impression made upon him by the circumstances is a reasonable belief that a crime has been . . . committed. . . . [Footnote omitted.]”
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.