State v. Loehr’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The absence of a date for each episode described in the affidavit is not fatal, however. The language of the affidavit, including the use of the present tense, indicates that the affiants are describing a course of conduct continuing to the date of the warrant. Such an affidavit has been held to be adequate if, in a common sense construction, it can be said from the face of the affidavit that the information received by the affiant was current and not stale."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 467 So. 2d 37 - State v. Fairbanks

2. “". . . In State v. Thompson, 354 So.2d 513 (La.1978), we held that an affidavit which fails to make any reference to the time when the events took place, and which is phrased in the past tense does not provide the magistrate with sufficient facts to determine that probable cause to search exists at that time. . ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 376 So. 2d 99 - State v. Morgan

3. “inferred from the surrounding circumstances....”

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