State v. George’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
852 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 854 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Mills (1992), State v. Garner (1995)
852 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 Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Spinelli 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 854 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.'”
119 later decisions quote this exact passage“[R]eviewing courts may not substitute their own judgment for that of the issuing magistrate by conducting a de novo determination as to whether the affidavit contains sufficient probable cause upon which the reviewing court would issue the search warrant. On the contrary, reviewing courts should accord great deference to the magistrate's determination of probable cause, and doubtful or marginal cases in this area should be resolved in favor of upholding the warrant.”
52 later decisions quote this exact passage““The Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule should not be applied so as to bar the use in the prosecution’s case-in-chief of evidence obtained by officers acting in objectively reasonable reliance on a search warrant issued by á detached and neutral magistrate but ultimately found to be unsupported by probable cause.” State v. George, supra.”
21 later decisions 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.