United States v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
544 F.2d 407 · 1976
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably United States v. Sampol (1980), United States v. Miller (1978)
50 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Katz v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e are not persuaded that the simple acts alone of putting a suitcase down and walking on a few steps indicated an intent to abandon the suitcase.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Abandonment is primarily a question of intent, and intent may be inferred from words, acts, and other objective facts, [cites omitted]. Abandonment here is not meant in the strict property-right sense, but rests instead on whether the person so relinquished his interest in the property that he no longer retained a reasonable expectation of privacy in it at the time of the search.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he fact that these verified bits did not relate directly to the criminal activity does not mean that such corroboration cannot support belief in her [the intended informant’s] credibility. . . . Her reliability is further bolstered by the specificity of the tips she gave — the name [of the Defendant] “James,” the phone numbers, the time the money left the house — which is not the kind of information likely to be passed around in rumors. 68”
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.