United States v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
705 F.2d 106 · 1983
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2010
13 federal appellate · 2 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 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even if we accept the inference that [informant] harbored ill will toward [defendant], her credibility cannot be rejected on this ground.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[Wjhen a magistrate has found probable cause, the courts should not invalidate the warrant by interpreting the affidavit in a hypertechnical, rather than a commonsense manner. Although in a particular case it may not be easy to determine when an affidavit demonstrates the existence' of the probable cause, the resolution of doubtful or marginal eases in this area should be largely determined by the preference to be accorded to warrants.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]ntagonism [toward defendant] may explain [informant's] motivation in providing the government with the tip, but it does not necessarily lessen his credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.