121 Ga. App. 22 - Fowler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 1999 · most notably 126 Ga. App. 123 - Lewis v. State (1972), 145 Ga. App. 761 - Tuzman v. State (1978)
51 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 SGRO v. United States · 113 Ga. App. 143 - Marshall v. State · Welchance v. State · 119 Ga. App. 678 - Burns v. State · Neal v. Commonwealth
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t was not necessary that the precise date of the occurrence be given but it should appear from the facts that the occurrence should be so near in point of time to the making of the affidavit and the execution of the search warrant as to create a reasonable belief that the same conditions described in the affidavit still prevailed at the time of the issuance of the warrant. Fowler v. State, 121 Ga. App. 22, 23 ( 172 SE2d 447 ); Sgro v. United States, 287 U. S. 206, 210 (53 SC 138, 77 LE 260).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clark“[I]t is manifest that the proof must be of facts so closely related to the time of the issue of the warrant as to justify a finding of probable cause at that time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] prime element in the concept of probable cause is the time of the occurrence of the facts relied upon.”
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.