State v. Seager’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Johnston (1988), 37 Cal. 3d 385 - People v. Guerra (1984)
4 federal appellate · 41 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Franks v. Delaware · Dunaway v. New York · Henry v. United States · 31 Cal. 3d 18 - People v. Shirley · State v. Hurd
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probable cause to search, in contrast to probable cause to arrest, requires a probability determination as to the nexus between criminal activity, the things to be seized, and the place to be searched.... Even if there is probable cause — or even absolute certainty — that certain described items are presently to be found in a certain described place, a lawful basis for search has not been established unless it is also shown to be probable that those items constitute the fruits, instrumentalities, or evidence of crime. In the absence of such a showing, the described items are not a legitimate object of a search.... Mere suspicion that the objects in question are connected with criminal activity will not suffice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Munz v. State“[A]ny probable cause review in response to a motion to suppress must be made upon the basis of the information presented to the magistrate at the time the warrant was issued; a defective warrant cannot be resuscitated by consideration of additional information now available or even of information available when the warrant was obtained but which was not communicated to the magistrate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas“the test is whether a person of reasonable prudence would believe a crime was being committed on the premises to be searched or evidence of a crime could be located there.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Woodcock
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.