7 Md. App. 491 - Grimm v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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.

1. ““It is well settled that the Fourth Amendment requires that a search warrant be issued only after a neutral and detached magistrate himself sifts the facts presented to him by policemen to determine whether probable cause exists for the issuance of that warrant. Johnson v. United States, 333 U. S. 10 . Obviously, to sift properly, the issuing magistrate must have the relevant facts before him which the affiant alleges as the basis of probable cause; otherwise, the magistrate would be obliged to accept the affiant’s conclusions and thus would ‘serve merely as the rubber stamp for the police.’ Aguilar v. Texas, 378 U.S. 108, 112 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 13 Md. App. 151 - Brooks v. State

2. “the court's determination of the existence of probable cause must be confined solely to the affidavit itself, and evidence outside the affidavit, no matter by whom produced or how, is not relevant to the inquiry of probable cause.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Ward

3. “It is ... well settled that the presence or absence of probable cause to support the search warrant must be determined from the allegations of the application for the warrant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Ward