154 Ga. App. 361 - State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2010
5 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 Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · 147 Ga. App. 284 - Galgano v. State · 136 Ga. App. 17 - Smith v. State · 125 Ga. App. 873 - Grebe v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[H]earsay and even hearsay upon hearsay may be sufficient to furnish the basis for the issuance of a valid warrant if the magistrate is informed of some of the underlying circumstances supporting the affiant’s underlying conclusions and his belief that the informant was credible or his information reliable. [Cits.] There must be a substantial basis for crediting such hearsay. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cochran v. State
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.