State v. Baltes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 24 state decisions

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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The magistrate should examine under oath the applicant for the search warrant and his witnesses and should reduce their sworn testimony to writing, or at least so much thereof as he relied upon in issuing the warrant, and then if he finds from all the sworn testimony in the case that there is probable cause for the issuance of the warrant he will reduce the complaint to writing, have it sworn to, and issue the warrant.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kraus v. State · State v. Tye

2. ““The essential prerequisite to the issuance of a valid search warrant is the taking of sworn testimony from the applicant cmd zvitnesses, if any, and the judicial action upon such sworn testimony by the magistrate resulting in the finding that probable cause exists for the issuance of the warrant.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Tye · State v. Blumenstein

3. ““It is not necessary that there should be positive proof of the existence of the facts upon which the issuance of a search warrant is based. It is sufficient that the sworn proof is of such a character as to induce in the mind of the magistrate an honest belief that they exist.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Frihart v. State · State v. Brockman