Gary v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Heien v. North Carolina (2014), State v. Gutierrez (1993)
84 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. Leon · Mapp v. Ohio · Weeks v. United States · Michigan v. Long
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`totality of the circumstances' analysis enunciated in Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213 , 103 S.Ct. 2317 , 76 L.Ed.2d 527 (1983), and adopted by [our Supreme C]ourt in State v. Stephens, 252 Ga. 181 , 311 S.E.2d 823 (1984).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“ensure that the magistrate had a `substantial basis for ... conclud[ing] that probable cause existed[,]'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“case in chief of inherently trustworthy tangible evidence obtained in reliance on a search warrant issued by a detached and neutral magistrate that ultimately is found to be defective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harvey v. State
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.