State v. Nyce’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably State v. Williamson (2009), State v. Evans (2009)
43 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 United States v. Leon · Aguilar v. Texas · Payton v. New York · Johnson v. United States · Stone v. Powell
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probable cause exists when there are reasonable grounds to believe that an offense has been or is being committed in the place to be searched. [ Snedeker, 99 N.M. at 290 , 657 P.2d at 617 ]; [ Gonzales, 2003-NMCA-008 , ¶ 11, 133 N.M. 158 , 61 P.3d 867 ]. Probable cause is not subject to bright line, hard-and-fast rules, but is a fact-based determination made on a case-by-case basis. See State v. Aull, 78 N.M. 607, 612 , 435 P.2d 437, 442 (1967) (stating no two cases are precisely alike); People v. Miller, 75 P.3d 1108, 1113 (Colo.2003) (en banc) (stating that probable cause analysis "does not lend itself to mathematical certainties or bright line rules"). "The degree of proof necessary to establish probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant `is more than a suspicion or possibility but less than a certainty of proof.'" [ Gonzales, 2003-NMCA-008, ¶ 12 , 133 N.M. 158 , 61 P.3d 867 ] (quoting State v. Donaldson, 100 N.M. 111, 116 , 666 P.2d 1258, 1263 (Ct.App.1983)). When ruling on probable cause, we deal only in the realm of reasonable possibilities, and look to the totality of the circumstances to determine if probable cause is present. State v. Garcia, 79 N.M. 367, 368 , 443 P.2d 860, 861 (1968); see United States v. Basham, 268 F.3d 1199, 1203 (10th Cir.2001).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and [A]rticle II, [S]ection 10 of the New Mexico Constitution both require probable cause to believe that a crime is occurring or seizable evidence exists at a particular location before a search warrant may issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vest · State v. Williamson“ordinary, innocent facts alleged in an affidavit may be sufficient if, when viewed together with all the facts and circumstances, they make it reasonably probable that a crime is occurring in the place to be searched.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williamson
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.