Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate ·

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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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The court did not err in denying the appellant’s motion to suppress evi dence of whiskey seized without a warrant. The facts that had come to the attention of the arresting officers were ‘sufficient, in the circumstances, to lead a reasonably discreet and prudent man to believe that liquor [was] illegally possessed in the automobile to be searched.’ Husty v. United States, 1931, 282 U.S. 694 , 701, 51 S.Ct. 240 , 242, 75 L.Ed. 629 , 632. The seizure of the whiskey followed a familiar pattern. An informer reported to government agents that he would drive automobiles containing untaxed liquor to a rendezvous with the arresting officers. He did. See Bruner v. United States, 5 Cir. 1961, 293 F.2d 621 . The trial judge had ample opportunity to affirm the informer’s record of reliability; the informer testified at the trial. Cf. Bruner v. United States, supra, 293 F.2d at 622 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hiott v. United States