State v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2022
21 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 · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · State v. McAfee · State v. Cordova
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reliability of an informant may be established, among other ways, by showing that: (1) the informant has given reliable information to police officers in the past; (2) the informant is a volunteer citizen-informant; (3) the informant has made statements against his or her penal interest; (4) independent investigation by police corroborates informant's reliability or information given; and (5) facts and circumstances disclosed impute reliability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vest · State v. Vest“[T]he important nature of the affidavits in this instance and [the officer's] exercise of the formalities in completing the affidavits sufficiently fulfilled the requirements of an oath or affirmation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e accept past performance as indicia of veracity because of the probability that the uncertain present result will be the same as in the past.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vest
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.