Weeks v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate · 5 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Secondly, less detailed information from a reliable source may be used as grounds for a finding of probable cause if independent investigation by law enforcement agencies yields sufficient verification or corroboration of the informant’s report to make it ‘apparent that the informant had not been fabricating his report out of whole cloth.’ Spinelli v. United States, supra. “If sufficient corroborative evidence can be collected to support a clear inference that the informer was generally trustworthy, then Aguilar’s second requirement is met.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Doescher v. State

2. ““Whiteley (supra) emphasized that where the government seeks to corroborate an otherwise insufficient informer’s tip on the basis of an independent police investigation, it has to show that information acquired through the investigation tends to indicate that the defendant is in the process of committing, or has previously committed, a crime.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wood v. State