United States v. Wilhelm’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.3d 116 · 1996
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably United States v. Danhauer (2000), United States v. Hodge (2004)
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 17 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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Payton v. New York · Alabama v. White
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he conclusion that an informant is reliable and mature based only on brief telephone conversations is dubious” and that the affidavit did not”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the affidavit does not provide the magistrate with a substantial basis for determining the existence of probable cause.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]othing in our opinion suggests, for example, that an officer could obtain a warrant on the basis of a `bare bones' affidavit and then rely on colleagues who are ignorant of the circumstances under which the warrant was obtained to conduct the search.”
2 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.