371 So. 2d 951 - Yielding v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably 461 So. 2d 834 - Williams v. State (1983), 405 So. 2d 957 - Carter v. State (1981)
26 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Spinelli v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Sedillo v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The most commonly used allegation for crediting the informant's story is that the informant has previously furnished information that led to convictions. However, the credibility or reliability of the unidentified informant's information may be shown in the informant's statement of facts indicating that he was an eye witness with personal knowledge of the location of the evidence.”
1 later decision 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.