State v. Conaughty’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1990
3 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 Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property · Heller v. New York · Roaden v. Kentucky · Lee Art Theatre, Inc. v. Virginia · United States v. Pryba
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A magistrate may find probable cause to issue a warrant when an affiant views a film and in his affidavit or attendant testimony he factually describes the film in detail. [Citations omitted] The affidavit must simply allow the magistrate an opportunity to “focus, searchingly on the question of obscenity,” [citations omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Piepenburg
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.