United States v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis
999 F.2d 596 · 1993
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably United States v. Bynum (2002), United States v. Foree (1995)
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 · United States v. Wright · United States v. Taylor · United States v. DeLeon · United States v. Caggiano
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he standard of probable cause requires a probability, not a prima facie showing, of criminal activity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“at the first sign of roots, a plant exists for sentencing purposes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The sufficiency of a search warrant affidavit is appraised against well-established criteria: The task of the issuing magistrate is simply to make a practical, common-sense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, including the ‘veracity’ and ‘basis of knowledge’ of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.”
1 later decision 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.