Tamburino v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2009
16 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Harris · Manley v. Commonwealth · 42 Ill. 2d 42 - The People v. Parker
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“while the admission by the informant that he was associated with the drug culture, and was a user of marijuana, would not alone be sufficient to establish his credibility, it is a factor to be considered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no mathematical formula ... can be applied in deciding whether a search ... is supported by probable cause,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Com.“tested and interpreted in a common sense and realistic fashion[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Com.
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.