United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
425 F.2d 1353 · 1970
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 1991 · most notably United States v. Long (1971), United States v. Mehciz (1971)
31 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Carroll v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A magistrate, when confronted with such detail, could reasonably infer that the informant had gained his information in a reliable way. . . . Nor do we believe that the patent doubts Aguilar raises as to the report’s reliability are adequately re solved by a consideration of the allegations detailing the FBI’s independent, investigative efforts .... Once again, Draper provides a relevant comparison. Independent police work in that case corroborated much more than one small detail that had been provided by the informant. There, the police, upon meeting the inbound Denver train on the second morning specified by informer Hereford, saw a man whose dress corresponded precisely to Hereford’s detailed description. It was then apparent that the informant had not been fabricating his report out of whole cloth; since the report was of the sort which in common experience may be recognized as having been obtained in a reliable way, it was perfectly clear that probable cause had been established. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘In dealing with probable cause, however, as the very name implies, we deal with probabilities. These are not technical; they are the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act. The standard of proof is accordingly correlative to what must be proved.“ ‘ “The substance of all the definitions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This meager (information) could easily have been obtained from an offhand remark heard at a neighborhood bar.”
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.