State v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

34 state decisions

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

1. “[W]hen a misdemeanor is committed in the presence of a police officer [leaving the scene to avoid arrest] and information of such is promptly placed on the police radio or otherwise communicated and a description of the misdemeanant given, the arrest of the misdemeanent by another police officer within a reasonable time of receipt of the information is valid.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ochoa · State v. Ochoa

2. “[The warrant requirement] is not an inconvenience to be somehow “weighed” against the claims of police efficiency. It is, or should be, an important working part of our machinery of government, operating as a matter of course to check the “well-intentioned but mistakenly over-zealous executive officers” who are a part of any system of law enforcement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Garcia v. State

3. “In the absence of some exigency or cooperative police effort, the police-team exception probably should not be invoked. To randomly apply the exception would effectively emasculate the felony-misdemeanor distinction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ochoa