84 Md. App. 461 - State v. Amerman’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 153 Md. App. 601 - Fitzgerald v. State (2003), Greenstreet v. State (2006)
47 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 Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is perfectly logical and not at all unexpected that a suppression hearing judge might say, “I myself would not find probable cause from these circumstances; but that is immaterial. I cannot say that the warrant-issuing judge who did find probable cause from them lacked a substantial basis to do so; and that is 'material.” There is a Yoltairean echo, “I may disagree with what you decide but I will defend with my ruling your right to decide it.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“`substantial basis' standard is less demanding than even the familiar `clearly erroneous' standard by which appellate courts review judicial facts finding in a trial setting.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Supreme Court case law makes it clear that not only prior convictions but also prior arrests and even a criminal reputation may be significant factors in the probable cause equation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.