Beaver v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) the proximity of the consent to the [illegal entry], (2) whether the [illegal entry] brought about police observation of the particular object which they sought consent to search, (3) whether the illegal [entry] was ‘flagrant police misconduct’, (4) whether the consent was volunteered rather than requested by the detaining officers, (5) whether the [resident] was made fully aware of the fact that he could decline to consent and thus prevent an immediate search of the car or residence, and (6) whether the police purpose underlying the illegality was to obtain the consent.”

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

2. “the proximity of the consent to the arrest, whether the seizure brought about police observation of the particular object which they sought consent to search, whether the illegal seizure was flagrant police misconduct, whether the consent was volunteered rather than requested by the detaining officers, whether the arrestee was made fully aware of the fact that he could decline to consent and thus prevent an immediate search of the car or residence, and whether the police purpose underlying the illegality was to obtain the consent.”

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