State v. Kaercher’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1990
4 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 United States v. Ventresca · 338 So. 2d 584 - State v. Crosby · 359 So. 2d 931 - State v. Boyd · State v. Segers · 357 So. 2d 1 - State v. Segers
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established in the jurisprudence that affidavits for search warrants are tested and interpreted in a commonsense and realistic fashion. United States v. Ventresca, 380 U.S. 102 , 85 S. Ct. 741 , 13 L. Ed. 2d 684 (1965); State v. Boyd, 359 So. 2d 931 (La. 1978); State v. Segers, 355 So. 2d 238 (La. 1978); on rehearing, 357 So. 2d 1 (La. 1978). Construing the instant affidavit in a realistic manner, we conclude that it did set forth probable cause to search. We agree with the State that the term, “green vegetable matter,” is synonymous with the word “marijuana,” when it is used in law enforcement and judicial proceedings... .The fact that the search warrant issued authorized exploration for one item only, marijuana, bolsters our conclusion that when sighting a green vegetable matter is reported by a law enforcement official, the “green vegetable matter” is understood to be suspected marijuana.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vanderpool v. State
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.