United States v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
818 F.2d 345 · 1987
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably United States v. Owens (1988), United States v. Laury (1993)
30 federal appellate · 8 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Jones v. United States · Adams v. Williams · United States v. Freeman · United States v. Phillips
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 63 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]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 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. · Hale v. Fish“[The Fifth Circuit's] review is limited to the affidavit itself because the government presented no evidence to the district court to indicate whether other facts may have been before the magistrate and considered by him in his determination of probable cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the informant has previously given tips that have proved to be correct”
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.