Schmitt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 590 So. 2d 404 - Schmitt v. State (1991), 707 So. 2d 300 - Walker v. State (1997)
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 Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Cortez · United States v. Ventresca · Stanley v. Georgia · Osborne v. Ohio
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.
“factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The task of the issuing magistrate is simply to make a practical, common-sense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him ... there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Enstice · State v. Howard“[t]echnical requirements of elaborate specificity”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.