State v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 16 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In this case it is significant that the affidavit indicates that when the two controlled sales were arranged by telephone, defendant’s house was under surveillance and defendant was observed going straight from his house to the place where the sale took place. Professor LaFave suggests in his treatise that this is the type of additional fact which should be deemed sufficient, in a sale-of-contraband case where the sale has not taken place at the seller’s home, to support an inference that the seller stores the contraband on his premises.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Novak v. State

2. “Sufficient information must be presented to the magistrate to allow that official to determine probable cause; his action cannot be a mere ratification of the bare conclusions of others.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. McCloskey