385 So. 2d 668 - State v. Lasswell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2009
5 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 · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Leonard Jerome Bastida v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden, La. State Penitentiary · Tallbear v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Fourth Amendment’s commands, like all constitutional requirements, are practical and not abstract. If the teachings of the Court’s cases are to be followed and the constitutional policy served, affidavits for search warrants, such as the one involved here, must be tested and interpreted by magistrates and courts in a commonsense and realistic fashion. They are normally drafted by nonlawyers in the midst and haste of a criminal investigation. Technical requirements of elaborate specificity once exacted under common law pleadings have no proper place in this area. A grudging or negative attitude by reviewing courts toward warrants will tend to discourage police officers from submitting their evidence to a judicial officer before acting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e believe that the flat statement by the narcotics' agent that the informant `is familiar with marijuana and can readily recognize it in its various forms' carried with it the necessary implication that the affiant had firsthand knowledge that this was so. In any event, the further statement that the informant had previously provided accurate information pertaining to the delivery of marijuana substantiated his familiarity with that substance. In today's society an encounter with marijuana is not the unique experience it once may have been. Measured by any common sense standard, the affidavit sufficiently demonstrated that the informant knew what marijuana was when he saw it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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