168 N.J. Super. 352 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2012
19 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 Carroll v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · Sedillo 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We understand the import of those cases to be that the indicia of an informant's trustworthiness necessary to support a finding of probable cause may be found where the information relied on has been supplied by an ordinary citizen witness who is not a traditional police informer and whose identity, though not furnished to the issuing judge is known to the police. See also State v. Singleton, 158 N.J.Super. 517, 524-26 , 386 A. 2d 880 (App.Div.1978). This principle is inapplicable where, as here, the informant has intentionally withheld his identity and no other evidence is at hand to verify his reliability. See Aguilar v. Texas, 378 U.S. 108, 114 , 84 S.Ct. 1509 , 12 L.Ed. 2d 723 (1964); State v. Perry, 59 N.J. 383, 389 , 283 A. 2d 330 (1971).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The caller, evidently observing the theft in progress, physically described the van being used in the crime together with its license plate number and stated that it would be driven out of the lot at about 3 p.m. [ 168 N.J. Super. at 355 , 403 A. 2d 28 ]”
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.