Bailey v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
389 F.2d 305 · 1967
Citation profile
127 federal appellate · 15 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 222 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Simmons v. United States (1968), Rawlings v. Kentucky (1980)
127 federal appellate · 15 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Townsend v. Sain
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 222 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable, cautious and prudent peace officer”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]s a society, we routinely expect police officers to risk their lives in apprehending dangerous people. We should not bicker if in bringing potentially dangerous situations under control they issue commands and take precautions which reasonable men are warranted in taking.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) finding of probable cause depends on the 'practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act.'”
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.