State v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably In Re Santa Fe Pacific Corp. Shareholder Litigation (1995), Jones v. State (1999)
1 district · 25 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 · Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · Locke v. The United States
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.
“A finding of probable cause does not require the police to uncover information sufficient to prove a suspect’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt or even to prove that guilt is more likely than not.... [T]o establish probable cause, the police are only required to present facts which suggest, when those facts are viewed under the totality of the circumstances, that there is a fair probability that the defendant has committed a crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lefebvre v. State · Murray v. State“[P]robable cause is measured by the totality of the circumstances through a case by case review of `the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men act.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lefebvre v. State · Culver v. State“[t]he possibility that there may be a hypothetically innocent explanation for each of several facts revealed during the course of an investigation does not preclude a determination that probable cause exists for an arrest”). 17 . Id. (emphasis in original) (internal quotations and citations omitted). 18 . Pierson v. State, 338 A.2d 571, 573 (Del.1975) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rybicki 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.