Cockrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"A search warrant may be issued by any judicial officer of this State, only upon affidavit sworn to before a judicial officer which establishes the grounds for its issuance." [Our emphasis].”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Costner v. State · Byars v. State

2. “"In Bailey v. State, 246 Ark. 362 , 438 S.W.2d 321 (1969), we said: `The purported affidavit, which is the sole evidence of probable cause afforded the magistrate, is defective in that it states a mere conclusion.' There we also said that when an officer obtains information from an informer (hearsay) `the warrant should not issue unless good cause is shown in the affidavit for crediting that hearsay'. Then in Walton v. State, 245 Ark. 84 , 431 S.W.2d 462 (1968), we said: `In determining probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant, the magistrate must judge for himself the persuasiveness of the facts relied upon by a complaining officer and may not accept a complainant's conclusions without question'. And in Durham v. State, 251 Ark. 164 , 471 S.W.2d 527 (1971), we said: `It is elementary that a valid search warrant cannot be issued except upon probable cause determined from facts and circumstances revealed to the issuing magistrate....'"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Byars v. State