United States v. Schuster’s Empirical Analysis
717 F.2d 537 · 1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2018
3 federal appellate · 3 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. § 472
Relies on Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Ross
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the “misplaced trust” theory, the government contends that once Schuster revealed the location of the counterfeit currency to Poteat and provided him with access to the apartment, he took the risk that his confidence might be misplaced and that other agents might become privy to the information revealed. This is precisely what happened. Poteat revealed the information to Agent Bowron, who together with Poteat conducted the authorized search. The search and seizure which took place was precisely that consented -to by the defendant. He must suffer the consequences of misplacing his trust in Poteat. Indeed, “[t]he risk of being ... betrayed by an informer or deceived as to the identity of one whom one deals is probably inherent in the conditions of human society.” In other words, “that’s life.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.