United States v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
689 F.2d 508 · 1982
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably United States v. Persico (1987), United States v. Muniz-Melchor (1990)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Carroll v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · United States v. Matlock
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ultimate inquiry is not whether there is some hypothesis of ⅜ * * “innocence” which is reasonably consistent with the circumstances shown, for such an analysis is more appropriate to the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard used on the merits. Here, we are dealing with “probable cause,” which requires “far less evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hawkins
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.