492 So. 2d 654 - McBride v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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

1. “'Courts have consistently held that an informant's track record [to establish credibility] is sufficiently established by showing (i) that on one or more prior occasions the informant indicated that a certain object, usually narcotics . . ., are concealed in a certain place, and (ii) that this information was verified as true by search which uncovered the specified items at the place indicated. This is a sound result. . . .' W. LaFave, 1 Search and Seizure , § 3.3, p. 510 (1978).”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Taylor · Harrelson v. State

2. “could have been any time in the past.' (quoting Walker v. State , 49 Ala.App. 741 , 743 , 275 So.2d 724 , 725-26 , cert. denied, 290 Ala. 371 , 275 So.2d 732 (1973)). A `stale' affidavit which does not pinpoint the time of the informant's observation fails the test established in Aguilar v. Texas , 378 U.S. 108 , 84 S.Ct. 1509 , 12 L.Ed.2d 723 (1964), and Spinelli v. United States , 393 U.S. 410 , 89 S.Ct. 584 , 21 L.Ed.2d 637 (1969). Thomas , supra.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harrelson v. State

3. “In Thomas v. State , 353 So.2d 54 , 56 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, 353 So.2d 59 (Ala. 1977), this court condemned the use of such vague language as that the informant ` has in the past observed contraband,' commenting that the phrase `”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harrelson v. State