State v. Reesman’s Empirical Analysis

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66 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “based on 17 years of precedent laid down by this Court since we adopted the Gates test . . ., certain indelible threshold rules have emerged. In turn, these rules may be merged into a fairly coherent step-by-step analysis for determining whether an informant's information is sufficient to establish probable cause.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Barnaby

2. “[A]dmissions of crime, like admissions against proprietary interests, carry their own indicia of credibility - sufficient at least to support a finding of probable cause to search.” Reesman, 2000 MT 243, ¶ 33 , 301 Mont. 408, ¶ 33 , 10 P.3d 83, ¶ 33 . Finally, informants motivated by”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Palmer

3. “a practical, common sense determination, given all the evidence contained in the application for a search warrant, whether a fair probability exists that contraband or ** evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Robertson