United States v. Sultan’s Empirical Analysis
463 F.2d 1066 · 1972
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably United States v. Barnes (1979), United States v. Burke (1975)
56 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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. § 152
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · United States v. Harris
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An untested informant’s story may be corroborated by other facts that become known to the [arresting agent], even if they corroborate only innocent aspects of the story.” United States v. Sultan, 463 F.2d 1066 , 1069 (2d Cir. 1972).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as long as the affiant accurately represented what was told him”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kahn v. Flood
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.