State v. DiRienzo’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 122 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. MacOn (1971), State v. Harvey (1997)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 122 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 5601
Relies on Spinelli v. United States · Griffin v. California · Morissette v. United States · Malloy v. Hogan · Harris 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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, a motion for a mistrial should be granted only in those situations which would otherwise result in manifest injustice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[H]earsay is an adequate basis for finding probable cause and the issuance of a warrant, so long as there are facts which give the statement an appearance of trustworthiness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gathers“it must be more likely than not that the facts proven point to the fact inferred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.