State v. George’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a citizen informer who provides information to police officers is entitled to greater belief in his veracity and his credibility than would be a typical police informer who, in some instances, are themselves criminals. Such a person acting openly, in the aid of law enforcement by reporting evidence of a crime to the police, is entitled to greater belief because he has no personal interest in the defendant’s arrest, nor does he normally anticipate any personal benefit in exchange for his information.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Dick