State v. Appleton’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2023
22 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 · Ker v. State of California · United States v. Harris
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stick that a reasonably discreet and prudent person would be led to believe that [Robert Inman had caused the death of Charlotte Dunn], then there was probable cause justifying the issuance of the search zvarrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Inman““Neither the magistrate nor a reviewing court can go outside the four corners of the affidavit to determine the existence of probable cause”, State v. Appleton, Me., 297 A.2d 363, 367 (1972), 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Loder“may justify an affiant’s reasonable belief of credibility of the informant’s story,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Knowlton
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.