State v. Vincent’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Sivri (1994), Walczyk v. Rio (2007)
2 federal appellate · 76 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 · United States v. Ventresca · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Andresen v. Maryland · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. 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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“issuing magistrate assesses all of the information set forth in the warrant affidavit and should make a practical nontechnical decision whether . . . there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“is confined to the `four corners' of the warrant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the affidavit provided information that could support different theories of criminal activity, including homicide, sexual abuse, assault and battery, kidnapping or risk of injury to a child”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Wible
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.