State v. DeChamplain’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 district · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably State v. Couture (1984), State v. Badgett (1986)
2 district · 116 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probable cause to search exists if (1) there is probable cause to believe that the particular items sought to be seized are connected with criminal activity or will assist in a particular apprehension or conviction . . . and (2) there is probable cause to believe that the items sought to be seized will be found in the place to be searched.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no warrant to search any place, or to seize any person or things, shall issue without describing them as nearly as may be, nor without probable cause supported by oath or affirmation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“must ascertain whether the facts in the affidavit are sufficient to justify an independent determination by a neutral and detached issuing judge that the necessary probable cause exists for the issuance of the warrant. State v. Williams, 169 Conn. 322 , 326 , 363 A.2d 72 (1975); State v. Rose, 168 Conn. 623 -627-28, 362 A.2d 813 (1975); State v. Allen, 155 Conn. 385 , 391 , 232 A.2d 315 (1967).”
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.