United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
557 F.2d 1239 · 1977
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2007 · most notably Maryland v. Garrison (1987), United States v. Lewis (1985)
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Roviaro v. United States · Patterson v. United States · Davis v. Alaska
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We feel it is equally frivolous to contend that Bloch was not entitled to rely on information he obtained from Hitch-ens.... Just because Hitchens and Bloch worked for different law enforcement agencies does not make them any less fellow officers. After all, affidavits for search warrants are to be “tested and interpreted by magistrates and courts in a commonsense and realistic fashion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dudley
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.