United States v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 856 · 1991
Citation profile
66 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably United States v. Bonds (1993), United States v. Sims (1992)
66 federal appellate ·
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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · United States v. Ventresca · Raphan v. United States · Zerman v. Melton
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts should not undertake a de novo review of the sufficiency of an affidavit, nor should they 'invalidate [a] warrant by interpreting [an] affidavit in a hypertechnical, rather than a commonsense, manner.' ... Rather, the magistrate's probable cause determination should be afforded great deference by the reviewing court.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The standard of review in this case is whether the magistrate had a substantial basis for finding that the affidavit established probable cause to believe that the evidence would be found at the place cited.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the resolution of doubtful or marginal cases in this area should be largely determined by the preference to be accorded to warrants.'”
4 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.