United States v. McFarlane’s Empirical Analysis
491 F.3d 53 · 2007
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably United States v. Griffin (2008), United States v. Gonzalez (2009)
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Massachusetts District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Ornelas v. United States · Florida v. JL · United States v. Antonakopoulos · Ostrowski v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance Companies · United States v. Garcia
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“police officers, relying on reasonably trustworthy facts and circumstances, have information upon which a reasonably prudent person would believe the suspect committed or was committing a crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A statement from a source can constitute the basis for probable cause . . . so long as there is a sufficient basis for crediting the source's reliability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An arrest does not contravene the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable seizures so long as the arrest is supported by probable cause.”
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.