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← 184 GAAPP 307 - Whitehead v. State

Whitehead v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 2004
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Stephens · 147 Ga. App. 284 - Galgano v. State · 172 Ga. App. 492 - Felker v. State · 128 Ga. App. 823 - Tomblin v. State · 154 Ga. App. 597 - Kouder 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he task of the issuing magistrate is simply to make a practical, common-sense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, including the veracity and basis of knowledge of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place. And the duty of a reviewing court is simply to ensure that the magistrate had a substantial basis for . . . concluding that probable cause existed. 1”
    2 later decisions 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.