Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
902 federal appellate · 150 district · 1,900 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,519 later decisions (64 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2026 · most notably Illinois v. Gates (1983), Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973)
902 federal appellate · 150 district · 1,900 state decisions — followed in 48 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
reviewedWhiteley v. Meacham (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Chapman v. State of California · Carroll v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas
Cited together with Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Terry v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States · Draper 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 3,519 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not, of course, question that the Laramie police were entitled to act on the strength of the radio bulletin. Certainly police officers called upon to aid other officers in executing arrest warrants are entitled to assume that the officers requesting aid offered the magistrate the information requisite to support an independent judicial assessment of probable cause. Where, however, the contrary turns out to be true, an otherwise illegal arrest cannot be insulated from challenge by the decision of the instigating officer to rely on fellow officers to make the arrest.”
95 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The decisions of this Court concerning Fourth Amendment probable cause requirements before a warrant for either arrest or search can issue require that the judicial officer issuing such a warrant be supplied with sufficient information to support an independent judgment that probable cause exists for the warrant.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an otherwise insufficient affidavit cannot be rehabilitated by testimony concerning information possessed by the affiant when he sought the warrant but not disclosed to the issuing magistrate”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Stone v. Powell · Wilkes v. Young
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.