inter-officer reliance
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 401 U.S. 560 - Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary · 1971Most cited · 3,519 citing opinions
an otherwise illegal arrest cannot be insulated from challenge by the decision of the instigating officer to rely on fellow officers to make the arrest
How often courts cite the case defining “inter-officer reliance”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “inter-officer reliance” — 3,514 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.