Henderson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably Everhart v. State (1975), Tucker v. State (1966)
46 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 · United States v. Ventresca · Burch v. State · Henson v. State · Bratburd v. State
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However, where these circumstances are detailed, where reason for crediting the source of the information is given, and when a magistrate has found probable cause, the courts should not invalidate the warrant by interpreting the affidavit in a hypertechnical, rather than a commonsense manner. Although in a particular case it may not be easy to determine when an affidavit demonstrates the existence of probable cause, the resolution of doubtful or marginal cases in this area should be largely determined by the preference to be accorded to warrants. Jones v. United States, supra, 362 U. S. [257], at 270, [ 80 S. Ct. 725, at 735 , 4 L.Ed.2d 697, at 707 , 78 A.L.R.2d 233 ].””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is force in the observations of the Supreme Court in United States v. Ventresca, 380 U. S. 102 , 13 L. Ed. 2d 684 , that the requirements of the Constitution are practical and not abstract, that search warrants must be tested and interpreted by magistrates and courts in ‘a commonsense and realistic fashion,’ that the preference to be accorded a warrant indicates that in a doubtful or marginal case a search under a warrant may be sustainable, where without one it would fail and that ‘a grudging or negative attitude by reviewing courts towards warrants will tend to discourage police officers from submitting their evidence to a judicial officer before acting,’ * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is ... well settled that the presence or absence of probable cause to support the search warrant must be determined from the allegations of the application for the warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ward
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.