State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 24 Md. App. 128 - Andresen v. State (1975), Everhart v. State (1975)
45 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 · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Johnson v. United States · Draper 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The finding of 'probable cause,’ while demanding more than mere suspicion, Draper v. U.S., 358 U.S. 307, 311-12 , 79 S. Ct. 329 , 3 L. Ed. 2d 327 (1959), requires less evidence than would justify conviction, Locke v. U.S., 7 Cranch 339, 348 , 3 L. Ed. 364 (1813), and less than would justify an officer in making a search without a warrant, Johnson v. U.S., 333 U.S. 10, 15 , 68 S. Ct. 367 , 92 L. Ed. 436 (1948). The evidence itself need not be legally competent in a criminal trial, Draper v. U.S., supra, 358 U.S. at 311 , and may in fact be hearsay, Jones v. U.S., 362 U.S. 257, 272 , 80 S. Ct. 725 , 4 L. Ed. 2d 697 (1960), so long as the judicial officer issuing the warrant is informed of some underlying circumstances supporting the affiant’s conclusions and his belief that any informant involved was credible or his information reliable, Aguilar v. Texas, 378 U.S. 108, 114 , 84 S. Ct. 1509 , 12 L. Ed. 2d 723 (1964), and such judicial officer is entitled to draw reasonable inferences from the facts contained in the affidavit based on his experience in such matters. Irby v. U.S., 114 U.S. App. D.C. 246 , 314 F.2d 251, 253 (1963), cert. denied, 374 U.S. 842 (1963).” Peterson v. State, supra at 313, 379 A.2d at 166 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[W]e sent a informant who has been reliable in the past giving information in 12 cases of Narcotic violations to this location.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.