United States v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
1,105 federal appellate · 157 district · 2,000 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,801 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Illinois v. Gates (1983), United States v. Leon (1984)
1,105 federal appellate · 157 district · 2,000 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
reviewedUnited States v. Harris (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States
Cited together with Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Illinois v. Gates
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 3,801 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Admissions of crime ... carry their own indicia of credibility-sufficient at least to support a finding of probable cause to search.”
136 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]echnical requirements of elaborate specificity once exacted under common law pleadings have no proper place in this area”
41 later decisions quote this exact passage“The latter is likely to be someone who is himself involved in criminal activity or is, at least, someone who enjoys the confidence of criminals.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Montigue · State v. Dudley
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.