State v. Bellamy

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding this Court’s task is to decide whether “the magistrate had a substantial basis for concluding that probable cause existed”
• holding a magistrate may issue a warrant only upon a finding of probable cause
• noting that specificity of information provided by a confidential informant indicates greater reliability
• applying the fair probability standard and stating the duty of a reviewing court is to ensure the magistrate had a substantial basis for its probable cause determination
• stating a magistrate may issue a search warrant only upon a finding of probable cause
• finding confirmation of the reliability of an informant’s information, which detailed the caliber and/or make of three guns, when the information correlated with 3 of 20 guns that had been stolen from a police station

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Baccus
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2006-01-09· cited 298×
• State v. King
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2002-03-25· cited 52×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-08-21· cited 39×
• State v. Dupree
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2003-06-30· cited 37×
• State v. Spears
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2011-06-15· cited 26×
• State v. Missouri
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-12-06· cited 25×
• State v. Fletcher
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-01-31· cited 23×
• State v. Kinloch
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2014-12-23· cited 19×
• State v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2003-04-28· cited 18×
• State v. Bowie
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2004-06-28· cited 15×
• State v. Martin
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2001-11-13· cited 15×
• State v. Gentile
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-05-08· cited 11×
• State v. Rutledge
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-04-09· cited 9×
• State v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-02-22· cited 5×
• State v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2014-06-30· cited 4×
• State v. Trapp
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2017-05-24· cited 3×
• State v. Thompson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2015-08-12· cited 1×
• State v. James M. Brown
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2026-03-25

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-02-21· cited 19×
• State v. Owen
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1981-01-13· cited 16×
• State v. Viard
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1981-03-23· cited 9×