State v. Delaney’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2021
20 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 · McCray v. State of Illinois · State v. Texeira · State v. Davenport · State v. Austria
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although an affidavit may be based on hearsay information and need not reflect the direct personal observation of the af-fiant, . . . the magistrate must be informed of some of the underlying circumstances from which the informant concluded that the narcotics were where he claimed they were, and some of the underlying circumstances from which the officer concluded that the informant, whose identity need not be disclosed, . . . was “credible” or his information “reliable.” [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kanda“[a] trial court may, in its discretion, require disclosure if it believes that the officer's testimony regarding the informer is inaccurate or untruthful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Salvas“where the sole purpose is to challenge the finding of probable cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Salvas
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.