Dewitt v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
383 F.2d 542 · 1967
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 5034
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Phelps v. United States · 113 Ga. App. 143 - Marshall v. State · Dunn v. United States · Joseph 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to the first question, we hold that the search, and the warrant on which it was based met U. S. constitutional standards as laid down in Aguilar v. State of Texas, 378 U.S. 108 , 84 S.Ct. 1509 , 12 L.Ed.2d 723 . (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Northcutt v. State
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.