Conerly v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a practical, nontechnical concept, based upon the conventional considerations of every day life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act. It arises when the facts and circumstances within an officer's knowledge, or of which he has reasonably trustworthy information, are sufficient in themselves to justify a man of average caution in the belief that a crime has been committed and that a particular individual committed it.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 866 So. 2d 422 - State v. Woods · 906 So. 2d 846 - Busick v. State

2. “make a practical, commonsense decision based on all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, including the `veracity' and `basis of knowledge' of persons supplying hearsay information.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 866 So. 2d 422 - State v. Woods · 904 So. 2d 1157 - Keen v. Simpson County

3. “[a]rrest warrants or search warrants shall be issued only by the judge after a judicial determination that probable cause exists based upon the affidavit or other evidence before the court.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 866 So. 2d 422 - State v. Woods · 904 So. 2d 1157 - Keen v. Simpson County