United States v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
476 F.2d 5 · 1973
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Lee v. Ferraro (2002), Bailey v. Board of County Commissioners of Alachua County (1992)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 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. § 1071 · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · Miller v. United States · Frey v. United States · Saia 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an officer makes an arrest, which is properly supported by probable cause to arrest for a certain offense, neither his subjective reliance on an offense for which no probable cause exists nor his verbal announcement of the wrong offense vitiates the arrest.”
6 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.