State v. Sinapi’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
43
cited by 43 later decisions
2
states following
August 2019
most recently cited
1 district · 42 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Brinegar v. United States · State v. Arrington · State v. Zuniga · State v. Smith
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the evidence as a whole provides a substantial basis for concluding that probable cause exists.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“entitled to infer that the garbage bag in question came from [the] defendant's residence and that items found inside that bag were probably also associated with that residence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“rely on his personal experience and knowledge related to residential refuse collection to make a practical, threshold determination of probable cause,”
2 later decisions 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.