United States v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
751 F.2d 300 · 1985
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2006
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Jones v. United States · United States v. Rose · National Labor Relations Board v. Harrison Steel Castings Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]robable cause does not require certainty of criminal activity, but only probability. . . . First-hand observations of criminal activity by a reliable informant in conjunction with police corroboration of factual details provides just this probability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“completely innocent activity can provide sufficient corroboration in some circumstances.”
1 later decision 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.