State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably McDonald v. State (1997), United States v. Rowland (1998)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 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 · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Garcia
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Taking all of the circumstances into account, and with due deference to the issuing [judge’s] determination, we hold that probable cause did not exist to search Lee’s mobile home. The factual predicate set out in [the] application for a warrant, to which we must confíne our review, consisted essentially of a second-hand rumor: the officer merely recounted information about Lee passed through the informant from his brother. The affidavit did not assert that the informant had previously given police truthful and reliable information about criminal activity. The affidavit did not assert that the informant’s brother was truthful and reliable. The affidavit did not explain how the brother obtained the incriminating information about Lee. The affidavit did not describe how the brother concluded he could buy drugs from Lee.... The affidavit failed entirely to address either factor in the instant case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our review of the judge’s decision to issue the search warrants is limited to whether there was a substantial basis for concluding that the evidence sought would be discovered in the place described in the application for the warrant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Frederick Roy Lee reportedly lived in a mobile home on Route 3, Pine Hollow Road, in Rawlings; 2) a confidential informant, or C.I. # 18-2970, had that day informed the police that Lee possessed the illegal drug LSD; 3) the informant stated that Lee ‘is supposedly receiving’ more of the drug on the same day; 4) ‘[t]his C.I. is aware of Freddy Lee being in possession of LSD th[r]ough another individual [the informant’s brother] who has indicated that he can purchase LSD for the C.I.’; 5) the confidential informant would arrange to have this ‘unwitting’ individual purchase LSD from Lee at about 11:30 p.m. that evening; 6) Lee had been convicted of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute in September 1988; and 7) the Cumberland City Police Department had received two anonymous reports in October 1991 that Lee was involved in the distribution of LSD.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.