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State v. James’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
2
states following
June 2001
most recently cited

24 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2001

24 state decisions

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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 Aguilar v. Texas · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Andresen v. Maryland · United States v. Dichiarinte · People v. West

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

  1. “"Probable cause" means a reasonable ground for belief of guilt. It exists where the facts and circumstances within the knowledge of the officers, based on reasonably trustworthy information, is sufficient to warrant a man of reasonable caution to believe that an offense has been or is being committed. [Citations omitted.]”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Ramirez · State v. Snedeker
  2. “Although an affidavit may be based on hearsay information and need not reflect the personal observations of the affiant . . . the magistrate must be informed of some of the underlying circumstances from which the informant concluded that the narcotics were where he claimed they were, and some of the underlying circumstances from which the officer concluded that the informant, whose identity need not be disclosed . . . was “credible” or his information “reliable”. (Cites omitted.)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Ramirez

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.