16 Md. App. 560 - Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 19 Md. App. 507 - Stanley v. State (1974), 17 Md. App. 399 - Hignut v. State (1973)
37 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 Aguilar v. Texas · 2 Md. App. 80 - Boone v. State · People v. Glaubman · Taylor v. State · 5 Md. App. 248 - Mullaney 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Though from the criminal milieu, to be sure, he was not, wittingly at least, working with the police. He was not in the position of ‘the common informant ... hidden behind a cloak of anonymity’ who more often than not ‘is paid or provides information in exchange for immunity from prosecution for his own misdeeds.’ People v. Glaubman, [ 175 Colo. 41 ], 485 P.2d 711, 716-717 (Colorado, 1971). This street seller was, so far as he knew, engaged in a purely commercial venture for his own profit. He was dealing with a regular and presumably valued customer. Being unable initially to satisfy his customer’s demand, it was to his every advantage to assure the prompt return of that customer as soon as fresh merchandise was available for sale. He simply had no purpose in misleading his own clientele. The circumstances in which the seller passed on the information to a customer and confidant are replete, we think, with reasonable assurances of trustworthiness.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even knowing nothing about the inherent credibility of a source of information, we may still ask, "Was the information furnished under circumstances giving reasonable assurances of trustworthiness?" If so, the information is "reliable," notwithstanding the ignorance as to its source's credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.