Lowery v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2016
18 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 · Scharffe v. Perkins · Marquez v. Texas · United States v. Park · Marquez 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The affidavit reflects that police surveillance and investigation corroborated the following facts: (1) Lowery and Patton lived at 911 Camellia Drive; (2) the house located at that address had underground rooms; and (3) during a two-month period, Officer Reynolds saw a black Mercedes at 911 Camellia Drive on several occasions. However, this corroborates only innocent facts, not suspicious or criminal activity related to the possession of amphetamine at 911 Camellia Drive. The corroborated facts do not provide any indicia of reliability regarding the statements of the “critical tipster” or of any of the other informants that amphetamines were located in the house.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Walker“Although the informant’s veracity and reliability no longer are separate and independent requirements for each case, they are still “highly relevant” considerations in the totality-of-the-circumstances review. Gates, 462 U.S. at 231 , 103 S.Ct. at 2328 . There still must be some indicia of the reliability of the tip. Knight v. State, 814 S.W.2d 545, 547 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 1991, no pet,).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barton v. State“Probable cause does not arise by virtue of the fact that several people, whose identity, reliability, credibility, or basis of knowledge is unestablished, gave officers information concerning criminal activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis 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.