State v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

35 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The task of the issuing magistrate is simply to make a practical, commonsense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, 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. And the duty of the reviewing court is simply to ensure that the magistrate had a substantial basis for ... concluding] that probable cause existed.” Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 238-239 , 103 S.Ct. 2317, 2332 , 76 L.Ed.2d 527, 548 (1983), reh. denied, 463 U.S. 1237 , 104 S.Ct. 33 , 77 L.Ed.2d 1453 (1983). (Omission in original.)”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Lachterman · State v. Dudley

2. ““In testing the sufficiency of the evidence, the court accepts the State’s evidence as true and gives the State the benefit of all reasonable inferences while disregarding all evidence and inferences to the contrary.” State v. Gardner, 741 S.W.2d 1, 9 (Mo. bane 1987), cert. denied, 486 U.S. 1025 , 108 S.Ct. 2001 , 100 L.Ed.2d 232 (1988).”

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

3. “[N]o indictment or information shall be deemed invalid, nor shall the trial, judgment or other proceeding thereon be stated, arrested or in any manner affected: (5) omitting to state the time at which the offense was committed, in any case where time is not the essence of the offense[.]”

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