State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Schneider v. Simonini (2000), State v. Johnson (2002)
67 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 Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Wong Sun v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“increases the likelihood that the informant was being truthful and possessed the necessary `veracity,' without more information relating to the informant's history or motives, the information does not firmly establish his truthfulness in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a practical, common-sense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, ... there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Information related by informants may constitute a basis for probable cause, provided that a substantial basis for crediting that information is presented.”
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.