United States v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
727 F.2d 392 · 1984
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Maumee v. Weisner (1999), United States v. Mueller (1990)
39 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Franks v. Delaware · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place. And the duty of a reviewing court is simply to ensure that the magistrate had a 'substantial basis for ... conclud[ing]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Barbin · Billy Hale, Plaintiff-Appellee-Appellant-Cross-Appellant v. Randal M. Fish, Major J.W. Jones, Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office and James E. Magee, Fbi Agent, Cross-Appellees, and Don Hathaway, Sheriff, Caddo Parish, Jim Byrd, Captain, Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office and Myron Fuller, Fbi Agent, John S. Stephens, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant-Appellant v. Randal M. Fish, Major J.W. Jones, Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office and James E. Magee, Fbi Agent, Cross-Appellees, and Don Hathaway, Sheriff, Caddo Parish, Jim Byrd, Captain, Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office and Myron Fuller, Fbi Agent, Billy Hale v. Randal M. Fish, Jim McGee F.B.I, Agent J.W. Jones, Etc.“`idle rumor or irresponsible conjecture,'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'[W]hen an average citizen tenders information to the police, the police should be permitted to assume that they are dealing with a credible person in the absence of special circumstances suggesting that such might not be the case '”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.