State v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably State v. Eason (2001), United States v. Koerth (2002)
2 federal appellate · 95 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 Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Mapp v. Ohio · Franks v. Delaware · Payton v. New York
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The task of the issuing magistrate is simply to make a practical, commonsense 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.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“In reviewing whether there was probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant, we accord great deference to the determination made by the warrant-issuing magistrate.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]hat determination will stand unless the defendant establishes that the facts are clearly insufficient to support a finding of probable cause.”
4 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.