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49 Ala. App. 741 - Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1973

Citation profile

46
cited by 46 later decisions
4
states following
September 2015
most recently cited

46 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 52 Ala. App. 204 - Loggins v. State (1974), 50 Ala. App. 96 - Haynes v. State (1973)

46 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · SGRO v. United States · Rosencranz 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “". . . `Had observed' could have been any time in the past. The informer did not tell the officer-affiant the date or time he allegedly observed the narcotics on the premises. There is nothing in the affidavit which hints of time except the use of the past tense in connection with the informant's telephone report to affiant."”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. ““Reynolds is just another case pointing up that vagueness of the time element is a vice in affidavits that is fatal.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “must speak as of the time of the issue of that warrant.”
    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.