Devier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably McDonald v. Missouri (1985), Isaacs v. State (1989)
2 federal appellate · 71 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · Furman v. Georgia
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Fourth Amendment provides that “. . . no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation[.]” . . . [BJefore a warrant for either arrest or search can issue the judicial officer issuing such a warrant must be supplied with sufficient information to support an independent judgment that probable cause exists for the warrant. 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Fourth Amendment does not by its terms require that probable cause be shown by the affidavit [filed in support of obtaining an arrest warrant], but [only] that the judicial officer be supplied with sufficient information to support his independent judgment that probable cause exists for the warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“authorized and directed to consider as a mitigating factor any aspect of the defendant's character or record and any of the circumstances of the offense that the defense offers as a basis for a sentence less than death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Devier v. Zant
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.