Heitman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2018
9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 283rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Franks v. Delaware · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Harris
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fair probability that contraband or other evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washington v. State
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.