Lopez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Wilkerson v. State (1986), Marini v. State (1980)
64 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · Jackson v. Denno
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]robable cause exists when the facts and circumstances shown in the affidavit would warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that the items to be seized were in the stated place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Elrod, Gordon Heath““If a verbal description of the body and the scene would be admissible, a photograph depicting the same is admissible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dugger v. State“[I]n interpreting affidavits for search warrants courts must do so in a common sense and realistic manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Elrod, Gordon Heath
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.