United States v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis
902 F.2d 259 · 1990
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Allen (2007), United States v. Ruhe (1999)
28 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Franks v. Delaware · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Ventresca
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a motion under Rule 12(f) 'is addressed to the discretion of the district judge and is to be disturbed only for clear error.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Since [the agent] was under no obligation to inform the magistrate of the informant's secondhand knowledge, and never intentionally concealed that fact, we conclude that the evidence obtained from the search was properly admitted at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Despite the nature of the informant's knowledge, there is no evidence that [the government agent] doubted[the informant's] credibility, and Franks requires only that the government affiant reasonably believe the allegations to be true.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.