Sullivan v. Commonwealth (First Case)’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1970
10 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 Goode v. Commonwealth
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The reasons for requiring the filing of an affidavit as a prerequisite to the issuance of a search warrant are: (1) To enable the officer whose jurisdiction is invoked to determine judicially whether probable cause exists for issuing the warrant; and (2) to fix responsibility for civil redress or criminal prosecution in the event of a false accusation. Goode v. Commonwealth, 199 Ky. 755 , 252 S.W. 105 . Since the issuing officer is the sole authority in whom the judicial discretion rests, he may not delegate this function of his office to the accuser. When an officer issues a warrant on the strength of a statement that the affiant has `good and sufficient information' upon which to form a belief that contraband property is being concealed, and the affidavit fails to disclose the substance of the information, such officer permits the accuser to usurp the judicial function of his office; and since no fact has been recited to substantiate the charge, the accused would be without civil redress and there would be no basis for prosecution if the accused has been falsely charged. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tygart 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.