Rojas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Amores v. State (1991), Banda v. State (1994)
26 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 · Alabama v. White · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary · Hennessy v. State · Glass v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order to satisfy the totality of the circumstances test, when an anonymous tip is relied upon to furnish probable cause, the informer must assert personal knowledge or there must be additional facts showing reason to believe that the contraband sought will probably be where the information indicates it will be.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Reynolds v. State · Parish v. State“The evidence showed that Officer Harold Dempsey received a telephone call from an anonymous caller with a male voice who stated that he, the informer, had been advised that a vehicle belonging to appellant contained a quantity of marihuana in the trunk. There was no evidence that the informer ever asserted that he had any personal knowledge whatsoever of the contraband. Additionally, the information provided by the anonymous tip concerning the funeral which appellant was to attend was potentially available via the local media. There were no additional facts within the informer’s tip which indicated any special or personal knowledge on the part of the informer. Thus, it was not reasonable for the police to conclude that the funeral information confirmed the other information within the tip.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garcia v. State“The vehicle was described as a 1982 Lincoln, maroon over black with roses on the windows, and unicorns etched in the back glass and windshield. The caller also said that the vehicle would be at the San Jacinto Baptist Church at 2:00 p.m. for funeral services after which they would go to graveyard services at Memorial Park Cemetery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garcia 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.