Jaben v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
246 federal appellate · 15 district · 304 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 692 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Illinois v. Gates (1983), Spinelli v. United States (1969)
246 federal appellate · 15 district · 304 state decisions — followed in 38 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJaben v. United States (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 6531
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · United States v. Ventresca · Holland v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Mallory 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 692 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he process [of determining probable cause] simply requires that enough information be presented to the issuing magistrate to enable him to determine that the charges are not capricious and are sufficiently supported to justify bringing into play the further steps of the criminal justice system.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e think that the Government must proceed through the further steps of the complaint procedure by affording the defendant a preliminary hearing as required by Rule 5, unless before the preliminary hearing is held, the grand jury supersedes the complaint procedure by returning an indictment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * * Where a complaint is instituted before a commissioner of the United States within the period above limited, the time shall be extended until the date which is 9 months after the date of the making of the complaint before the commissioner of the United States. For the purpose of determining the periods of limitation on criminal prosecutions, the rules of section 6513 shall be applicable.”
4 later decisions 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.