Saville v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
420 F.2d 347 · 1969
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1980
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
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 · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he affidavit in the instant case is readily distinguishable for there is no claim that the affiant had personal knowledge and there is no indication that the information he imparted to the clerk came from official, viz., reliable, sources. ... To read this affidavit as anything but an open ended document giving no clue to the actual source of Detective Hurley’s information, would go far beyond a ‘commonsense interpretation.’ ” 420 F.2d at 350 . 43”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although an affidavit may be based on hearsay information and need not reflect the direct personal observations of the affiant, . . . the magistrate must be informed of some of the underlying circumstances from which the informant concluded that the (items of contraband) were where he claimed they were, and some of the underlying circumstances from which the officer concluded that the informant . . . was 'credible' or his information 'reliable'.”
1 later decision 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.