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← 2004 MT 331 - State v. Griffin

State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
March 2022
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Elison · State v. Tackitt · State v. Reesman · City of Cut Bank v. Bird · State v. Lott

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

  1. “`A mere affirmance of belief or suspicion by a police officer, absent any underlying facts or circumstances, does not establish probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Just because a [driver] has a pipe in his pocket with untested white residue on it, does not mean his vehicle will contain evidence of a drug offense.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.