People v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2011 · most notably Franks v. Delaware (1978), State v. Ruscoe (1989)
2 federal appellate · 42 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Roviaro 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It should not be concluded, however, that for an informant to have an acceptable `track record' it must appear that his prior information has resulted in one or more convictions, for this clearly is not the case. As explained in People v. Arnold , 186 Colo. 372 , 527 P.2d 806 (1974): "`To impose the more stringent requirement that the information led to convictions would impose an undue restriction on law enforcement officers. The information previously furnished may be in connection with cases not yet tried or may relate to prosecutions dismissed for reasons unrelated to the reliability of the informant's information. Of course, the fact that the information previously supplied has resulted in convictions would strengthen the reliability factor of the informant.'" LaFave, Vol. 1 at 510.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““... Thus, an informant’s allegation that he saw the defendant in possession of counterfeit money is deemed sufficient without any explanation as to how it was determined that the money was counterfeit in character, and an assertion by an informant that he saw illegal drugs or the like at a certain place is regularly accepted without any showing as to how the informant was able to identify the substance. Similarly, courts — including the United States Supreme Court — seem to think it is enough that an informant says he ‘saw’ a sale of narcotics, even without any explanation as to how it was known that a sale was occurring or that the object being sold was in fact narcotics.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lewis
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.