United States v. Mathis’s Empirical Analysis
357 F.3d 1200 · 2004
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Cortez v. McCauley (2007), United States v. Wooten (2004)
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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. § 1291
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Leon · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so long as the informant's statement is reasonably corroborated by other matters within the officer's knowledge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“depends on the nature of the criminal activity, the length of the activity, and the nature of the property to be seized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rather, an officer simply must have knowledge of other matters that reasonably corroborate the informant's statements.”
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.