State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2020
9 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 North Carolina v. Alford · Johnson v. United States · State v. Sundberg · State v. Walston · State Ex Rel. Townsend v. DIST. CT. OF 4TH JD
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The requirement that the magistrate decide the existence of probable cause on the basis of facts sufficient to allow an ** independent determination, is imposed by Montana law to ensure that some neutral and detached evaluation is interposed between those who investigate crime and the ordinary citizen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Neiss“Montana law requires that an impartial magistrate must determine the existence of ... probable cause ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Neiss
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.