State v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 district · 290 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 307 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Geisler (1992), State v. Sivri (1994)
3 federal appellate · 12 district · 290 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 · Franks v. Delaware · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Spinelli v. United States
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 307 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probable cause, broadly defined, comprises such facts as would reasonably persuade an impartial and reasonable mind not merely to suspect or conjecture, but to believe that criminal activity has occurred.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“Probable cause to search exists if: 1) there is probable cause to believe that the particular items sought to be seized are connected with criminal activity; and 2) there is probable cause to believe that the items named will be found in the place to be searched.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“must determine that the affidavit presented a substantial factual basis upon which the [issuing judge] could conclude that probable cause existed.”
5 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.