United States v. Landis’s Empirical Analysis
726 F.2d 540 · 1984
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably United States v. Angulo-Lopez (1986), United States v. Yarbrough (1988)
51 federal appellate · 5 district · 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
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Salvucci
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he continuous nature of the activity diminishes the significance of the time lag between the acts described in the affidavit and presentation of the affidavit to the magistrate”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Interlocking tips from different confidential informants enhance the credibility of each.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'To credit a confidential source's information in making a probable cause determination, the affidavit should support an inference that the source was trustworthy and that the source's accusation of criminal activity was made on the basis of information obtained in a reliable way.'”
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.