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← 211 GAAPP 712 - Atkins v. State

Atkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 2002
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Illinois v. Gates · State v. Stephens · Gary v. State · 186 Ga. App. 155 - State v. Brown · 159 Ga. App. 242 - State v. Alonso

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. “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 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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