State v. Alonzo’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2018
7 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 Maryland v. Garrison · Steele v. United States No. 1 · United States v. Darensbourg · State v. Korman · 408 So. 2d 1316 - State v. Scramuzza
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, mistakes in the use of municipal numbers do not invalidate a search warrant which otherwise describes the premises with sufficient particularity such that the officer with the warrant "can with reasonable effort ascertain and identify the place intended." Steele v. United States , 267 U.S. 498 , 503, 45 S.Ct. 414 , 416, 69 L.Ed. 757 (1925) ; [ Maryland v. ] Garrison , 480 U.S. [79] at 88-89, 107 S.Ct. [1013] at 1019 [ 94 L.Ed.2d 72 (1987) ] (citing Steele ); State v. Scramuzza , 408 So.2d 1316 , 1317-18 (La. 1982) ; State v. Korman , 379 So.2d 1061 , 1063 (La.1980) ; see also 2 Wayne R. LaFave, Search and Seizure, § 4.5(a) at 522 (3d ed. 1996) ("[T]he cases reflect an understanding of the fact that errors can easily occur in the use of numbers, such as an apartment or house number, and that it should be presumed that such an error did occur when other descriptive facts fit a different location.")”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he cases reflect an understanding of the fact that errors can easily occur in the use of numbers, such as an apartment or house number, and that it should be presumed that such an error did occur when other descriptive facts fit a different location.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McLeod“[a]ny police officer could have resolved the discrepancy created by the use of the incorrect municipal number and ascertained the targeted premises with reasonable certainty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.