United States v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
475 F.2d 1037 · 1973
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Beck v. State of Ohio · Elkins v. United States · United States v. Maynard · United States v. Tramontana
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Arresting officers have probable cause if, at the moment of arrest, ‘the facts and circumstances within their knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information were sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing that the * * * [arrested person] * * * had committed or was committing an offense.’ Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. 89 , 91, 85 S.Ct. 223 , 225, 13 L.Ed.2d 142 (1964).” United States v. McDowell, 475 F.2d 1037 , 1039 (9th Cir. 1973).”
3 later decisions 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.