State v. Leyba’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

46 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “To hold an overnight guest has a legitimate expectation of privacy in his host’s home merely recognizes that the everyday expectations of privacy that we all share. Staying overnight in another’s home is a longstanding social custom that serves functions recognized as valuable by society. We stay in others’ homes when we travel to a strange city for business or pleasure, when we visit our parents, children, or more distant relatives out of town, when we are in between jobs or homes, or when we house-sit for a friend. We will all be hosts and we will all be guests many times in our lives. From either perspective, we think that society recognizes that a house-guest has a legitimate expectation of privacy in his host’s home. From the overnight guest’s perspective, he seeks shelter in another’s home precisely because it provides him with privacy, a place where he and his possessions will not be disturbed by anyone but his host and those his host allows inside. We are at our most vulnerable when we are asleep because we cannot monitor our own safety or the security of our belongings. It is for this reason that, although we may spend all day in public places, when we cannot sleep in our own home we seek out another private place to sleep, whether it be a hotel room, or the home of a friend.”

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

2. “We review the trial court’s ruling on Defendant’s motion to suppress to determine whether the law was correctly applied to the facts, viewing them in the manner most favorable to the prevailing party. While we afford de novo review of the trial court’s legal conclusions, we will not disturb the trial court’s factual findings if they are supported by substantial evidence.”

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

3. “`all the record surrounding [the] arrest[,] search and seizure.'”

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