United States v. Meeks’s Empirical Analysis
313 F.2d 464 · 1963
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1983
5 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Jones v. United States · Boyd v. United States · McDonald v. United States · Goss v. Board of Education · Boesche v. Udall
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The affidavit was made up on a printed official form used for such purposes. In the place where it stated that the affiant had reason to believe that on the premises known as Frank Meeks, Grundy County, in the Eastern District of Tennessee, "there is now being concealed certain property, namely, etc.," there was obviously insufficient space to write a description of the premises with directions how to locate it. In this space there are the words "(See attachments)" and there is stapled to the affidavit covering that space a strip of paper, approximately an inch deep and containing seven lines of description of the premises with directions how to locate it. This same situation exists with respect to the search warrant. These paper strips are not signed or initialed, but the typing on them appears, at least to the inexperienced layman, to be by the same machine used in filling out the other portions of the printed forms. Appellant contends that since it is not shown by a signature, initials or some other identifying mark thereon, that the typewritten slips of paper were a part of the affidavit and search warrant at the time of the execution and issuance thereof, they do not legally constitute a part of either the affidavit or the search warrant and that the warrant is, accordingly, invalid for failing to contain a reasonably definite description of the property to be searched. Appellant's counsel states that he has been unable to find any reported decision sustaining this speci”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is now being concealed certain property, namely, etc.,”
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.