United States v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
536 F.2d 963 · 1976
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 67 Ill. 2d 308 - People v. Campbell (1977), 153 Md. App. 601 - Fitzgerald v. State (2003)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · United States v. Race
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Furthermore, the word “trained,” when considered in the context of the affidavit, has a common and well understood meaning.... Assuming, therefore, that the magistrate was a qualified official possessing ordinary and reasonable intelligence and prudence it does not in our view defy logic to conclude that the magistrate understood that the “trained dog” was endowed, by reason of experience and training, with the ability to sniff out cocaine.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The same concerns that would be present in a human informant are simply not relevant here. Cf. United States v. Pond, 382 F. Supp. 556 (S.D. N.Y. 1974). An acute sense of smell is characteristic of canines, but out of the ordinary in humans. Moreover, a canine, when trained, reacts mechanically to certain cues in his environment.” 536 F. 2d at 966 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“trained,” along with other information, was sufficiently reliable to support the issuance of a warrant. The dog in Meyer had alerted to empty containers in the defendants’ cabin on a passenger cruise liner. The fact that the dog's positive reaction was augmented by other information in the affidavit is significant because the reviewing court determined the additional information "could lead a magistrate to believe that the information conveyed by the animal’s strong "alert”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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