Rucker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2023
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Brinegar v. United States · United States v. Robinson · Griffin v. United States · Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman · Reserve Life Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no fixed formula for determining the existence of probable cause to arrest; it is rather a matter left to the informed judgment of a reasonably prudent arresting officer . . . . Generally, probable cause exists where the facts and circumstances within the arresting officer's knowledge . . . are sufficient in themselves to warrant a reasonable belief that an offense has been or is being committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re TH“Probable cause must be supported by more than mere suspicion but need not be based on evidence sufficient to sustain a conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re TH
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.