State v. Varnado’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2018
19 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. Leon · United States v. Ventresca · Illinois v. Rodriguez · Zurcher v. Stanford Daily
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id., 468 U.S. at 907 n. 6, 104 S.Ct. at 3412 ... Accordingly,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In many cases, the nature of the crime may make it appropriate to assume that the fruits and instrumentalities of the offense are probably stored in the suspect's residence.... 'Where the object of the search is a weapon used in the crime or clothing worn at the time of the crime, the inference that items are at the offender's residence is especially compelling.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Vamado court recognized that the police had probable cause to search the defendant’s residence. But, sounding a now familiar chord, the court found “a critical omission in the warrant application,” because it failed “to identify the targeted premises as the defendant’s residence. ” Id. at 270. Nonetheless, because the exclusionary rule is intended to deter police misconduct, not to punish the mistakes of judges, the court concluded that, “under the particular circumstances of this case, application of the exclusionary rule would serve no remedial purpose.” Id. The court reasoned that “[t]he officer had no apparent purpose for omitting the information linking the defendant to the residence ....” Id. at 271. Indeed, the court believed that another officer in the same position “would not have noticed the defect____” Id.”
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.