United States v. Thacker’s Empirical Analysis
382 F.2d 732 · 1967
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
November 1973
most recently cited
9 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 5205
Relies on Beck v. State of Ohio · Draper v. United States · McCray v. State of Illinois · United States v. Williams · Newcomb 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the instant case, the arresting officer had information from an informer whom he knew personally and whom he had no reason to doubt. We reject appellant’s contention that this information should not be credited since the informer was unnamed and had never previously given any information to the agent. * * * Moreover, we hold that the trustworthiness of the informant may be established in ways other than prior reliability as a tipster. Here agent Bauer knew his informant and had no reason to doubt him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * it has come to mean more than bare suspicion: Probable cause exists where ‘the facts and circumstances within their [the officers’] knowledge and of which they had 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.””
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.