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Riggan v. Virginia’s Empirical Analysis

1966

Citation profile

61
cited by 61 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
7
states following
June 2006
most recently cited

34 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 61 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2006 · most notably Hudson v. Michigan (2006), Spinelli v. United States (1967)

34 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

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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 Mapp v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Ker v. State of California · Giordenello v. United States · Foti v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

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

  1. “[The affidavit in Aguilar] was found inadequate under the rule applied in Giordenello v. United States, 357 U.S. 480 [, 78 S.Ct. 1245, 2 L.Ed.2d 1503] (1958), where a majority of the Court found that the complaint 'does not indicate any sources for the complainant's belief; and it does not set forth any other sufficient basis upon which a finding of probable cause could be made.' At 486 [, 78 S.Ct. at 1250].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Hoover v. Beto
  2. ““The material facts constituting probable cause for issuance of the warrant._ Personal observation of the premises and information from sources believed by the police department to be reliable. -””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Gonzales 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.