State v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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

1. “The task of the issuing magistrate is simply to make a practical, common-sense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, including the `veracity' and `basis of knowledge' of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place. And the duty of a reviewing court is simply to insure that the magistrate had a `substantial basis for ... conclud[ing] that probable cause existed.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 522 So. 2d 1023 - State v. Moise · 444 So. 2d 1005 - State v. Vanwinkle

2. “the [police] affiant personally supervised the controlled buy resulting in the purchase of contraband from the described premises was sufficient probable cause to justify the warrant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 498 So. 2d 1365 - Ryals v. State