Leeper v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.2d 281 · 1971
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2007 · most notably Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973), United States v. Zapata (1994)
43 federal appellate · 11 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. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 472
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] warrant shall issue only on affidavit sworn to . . . and establishing the grounds for issuing the warrant,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n insufficient affidavit may be 'rehabilitated' by testimony disclosed to the issuing magistrate.”
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.