State v. Velez’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Lewis (1991), State v. Trine (1996)
44 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 · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probable cause means more than mere suspicion. There must be facts and circumstances within the officer's knowledge, and CT Page 6881 of which he has trustworthy information, sufficient to justify the belief of a reasonable person that an offense has been or is being committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] reviewing court should pay great deference to the trial court's determination regarding the existence of probable cause”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holley
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.