United States v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
477 F.2d 657 · 1973
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably United States v. Thomas (1973), United States v. Lee (1976)
28 federal appellate · 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 26 U.S.C. § 5848 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Brinegar v. United States · Adams v. Williams · Ker v. State of California · United States v. Rabinowitz · 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t does not necessarily follow from the fact that the arrest warrants were defective that the officers' entry into the apartment was unlawful .... A warrantless arrest is nevertheless valid if the arresting officer has probable cause to believe that the person arrested has committed or is in the act of committing a crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A contrary rule would leave the warrant requirement embodied in the fourth amendment open to circumvention by overzealous officials willing to make erroneous affidavits in the hope that the resultant search or arrest will yield conclusive proof of criminal conduct. The warrant procedure operates on the assumption that statements in the affidavit presented to the issuing magistrate are at least an accurate representation of what the affiant knows though possibly inadequate to show probable cause. It would quickly deteriorate into a meaningless formality were we to approve searches or arrests based upon misrepresentation or incorrect factual statements. ■ Thus when an affidavit contains inaccurate statements which materially affect its showing of probable cause, any warrant based upon it is rendered invalid.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We feel compelled to emphasize that there is nothing in the record which indicates that the erroneous statement in Williams’ affidavit was intentionally or willfully made. Nothing in this opinion is intended to suggest to the contrary.” ,”
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.