State v. Booth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘The privilege protects an individual from being an involuntary witness against himself in any proceeding, criminal or civil, formal or informal, where his answers might incriminate him in future criminal proceedings. The privilege extends not only to answers that would completely reveal guilt of a crime, but also to questions whose answers might reveal facts which could be a link in a chain of evidence connecting him to a crime.’”

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

2. “Since our society recognizes the varied use of automobiles, the exclusive possession of premises rule has been modified when automobiles are involved because of the reality of the contemporary use of the automobile as a means of social accommodation. ... In the case of automobiles the full effect of [the exclusive possession] rule is tempered by evidence of equal access by persons, other than the owner, to the vehicle. In eases where there is joint control, a defendant is still deemed to have possession and control where there is additional evidence connecting him with the controlled substance.”

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

3. “it is also true that superior access to contraband as among two or more people, is an incriminating fact” suggesting possession) (internal citations omitted); Hishaw v. State, 568 P.2d 643, 645 (Okla.Crim.App.1977) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rivas v. United States