17 Md. App. 399 - Hignut v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably 24 Md. App. 128 - Andresen v. State (1975), 19 Md. App. 507 - Stanley v. State (1974)
85 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · United States v. Harris
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If the tip is found inadequate under Aguilar , the other allegations which corroborate the information contained in the hearsay report should then be considered. At this stage as well, however, the standards enunciated in Aguilar must inform the magistrate’s decision. He must ask: Can it fairly be said that the tip, even when certain parts of it have been corroborated by independent sources, is as trustworthy as a tip which would pass Aguilar’s tests without independent corroboration?””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We are admonished, in the interests of enhancing the Fourth Amendment protection, to “accept evidence of a less ‘judicially competent or persuasive character than would have justified an officer in acting on his own without a warrant.’ ” Under that mandate, the furthering of valuable liberties under the Fourth Amendment requires that we read possibly ambiguous language with an eye toward upholding the warrant rather than toward striking it down.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““So long as the controls are adequate, the ‘controlled buy’ alone may well establish probable cause to search a suspect premises, let alone verify from scratch an informant’s otherwise unestablished ‘credibility’.””
3 later decisions 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.