430 So. 2d 650 - State v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 753 So. 2d 801 - State v. Broadway (1999), 575 So. 2d 928 - State v. Moore (1991)
43 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Roviaro v. United States · Moore v. Illinois · Alexander v. Virginia
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.
“only when the evidence shows that the informant, in cooperation with the police, participated in the crime, should the identity be disclosed to the defendant. In such cases, the informant does more than furnish a tip that enables the police to make an arrest or search. While working with the police, he takes part in the illegal transaction itself. (At 652).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The informer privilege is the privilege of withholding the identity of an informant who supplies information to law enforcement officials concerning crime. 430 So.2d at 652 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This court has consistently held that a confidential informant's identity will be divulged only under exceptional circumstances. State v. Babbitt, 363 So.2d 690 (La.1978); State v. Robinson, 342 So.2d 183 (La.1977). The general rule is that the burden is upon the defendant to demonstrate exceptional circumstances and much discretion is vested in the trial judge on the question of whether the circumstances warrant disclosure. State v. Babbitt, supra ; State v. Robinson, supra .”
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.