State v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably State v. Thurman (1993), State v. Droneburg (1989)
37 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 · United States v. Ross · United States v. Chadwick
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a practical, common-sense decision whether, given all the circumstances ..., including the `veracity' and `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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an informant's 'reliability' and 'basis of knowledge' are but two relevant considerations, among others, in determining the existence of probable cause,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Saddler · State v. Saddler“the prosecution need only establish that the produced contraband was found in a place or under circumstances indicating that the accused had the ability and the intent to exercise dominion and control over it.”
2 later decisions 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.