Beemer v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2017
22 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 · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... The task of the issuing magistrate is simply to make a practical, commonsense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, including the ‘veracity’ and the ‘basis of knowledge’ of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place. And the duty of a reviewing court is simply to ensure that the magistrate had a ‘substantial basis for ... concluding)’ that probable cause existed. Jones v. United States, supra, 362 U.S. [257] at 271, 4 L.Ed.2d 697 , 80 S.Ct. 725 [at 736], 78 ALR2d 233.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“They [our prior decisions] did not constitute an independent determination of Kentucky law but were compelled by federal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“substantial basis for concluding that a search would uncover evidence of wrongdoing.”
1 later decision 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.