United States of America v. Rambis’s Empirical Analysis
686 F.2d 620 · 1982
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably United States v. Pritchard (1984), United States v. Savoca (1985)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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
Relies on Delli Paoli v. United States · California v. Arizona · United States v. Lucarz · United States v. Valenzuela · United States v. Picariello
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] magistrate's determination of probable cause is to be 'given considerable weight and should be overruled only when the supporting affidavit, read as a whole in a realistic and common sense manner, does not allege specific facts and circumstances from which the magistrate could reasonably conclude that the items sought to be seized are associated with the crime and located in the place indicated.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because the probable cause determination “involves the application of law rather than an evaluation of factual evidence ... on review the appellate court is not limited to a determination of whether the district court’s finding was clearly erroneous. [The appellate court] must independently review the sufficiency of the affidavit [supporting the warrant], recognizing that doubtful cases should be resolved in favor of upholding the warrant.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Probable cause is established whenever there is a reasonable probability of finding the desired items in a particular location.”
3 later decisions 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.