Pendergrast v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
416 F.2d 776 · 1969
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 4 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Sullivan v. Murphy (1973), Commonwealth v. Shaffer (1972)
87 federal appellate · 4 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 13 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · Carroll v. United States · Kotteakos 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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on the facts and circumstances of the particular case . . . and on the 'practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““‘Other courts in some number have held that probable cause is established where (a) the victim of an offense (1) communicates to the arresting officer information affording credible ground for believing that the offense was committed and (2) unequivocally identifies the accused as the perpetrator, and (b) materially impeaching circumstances are lacking. This appeals to us as an eminently sound proposition, and we would hardly do less than adopt it. For it would smack of hypocrisy to require police officers to be reasonable if we cannot be reasonable too.” ( 416 F.2d 776, 785 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The word ‘recently’, as used in these instructions, is a relative term, and it has no fixed meaning. . . . The longer the period of time since the theft of the property, the more doubtful becomes the inference which may reasonably be drawn from its unexplained or unsatisfactorily explained possession.” 416 F. 2d at 790-791 .”
2 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.