Avery v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Wilkerson v. State (1986), Hennessy v. State (1983)
26 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 Aguilar v. Texas · United States v. Ventresca · Bullock v. United States · Simuel v. United States · California Department of Human Resources Development v. Java
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the informant is unnamed, the minimal requirement is that the affidavit recite that the informant has no criminal record, and enjoys a good reputation among his associates and in the community.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wood v. State
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.